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SEMICENTENNIAL  PUBLICATIONS  or 
A  THE  UNIVERSITY  OF  CALIFORNIA  are  of- 
fered as  an  expression  of  some  of  the  more 
notable  scholarly  and  literary  work  of  the 
University.  Part  of  these  publications  rep- 
resent important  current  activities  in  various 
departments;  others  are  distinctly  mono- 
graphic in  character,  and  are  the  results  of 
long-continued  investigations  which  have 
been  carried  to  conclusions  within  the  semi- 
centenary  year.  Work  on  some  contributions 
was  necessarily  suspended  by  reason  of  war 
conditions,  but  all  the  publications  included 
in  the  following  pages  are  either  completed 
or  nearing  completion.  These  publications, 
of  course,  do  not  include  the  whole  of  the 
scholarly  work  of  the  University  within 
the  last  years  of  the  fifty-year  period,  for  the 
University  has  also  continued  to  issue  its 
regular  series  and  memoirs,  while  members 
of  its  Faculty  have  published  text-books  and 
other  works  not  falling  within  the  scope  of 
the  University's  established  series. 

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The  Semicentennial  Publications  include 
sixty-eight  titles  in  fifty-four  volumes.  A 
limited  edition  of  two  hundred  and  fifty  sets 
of  the  series  is  uniformly  bound  in  blue  cloth 
with  appropriate  gold  lettering  and  an  im- 
pression of  the  University  seal.  These  sets 
are  intended  for  distribution  to  sister  insti- 
tutions in  commemoration  of  the  Semicen- 
tenary  Anniversary. 


PHILOSOPHY 

Footnotes  to  Formal  Logic 

By  CHARLES  HENRY  BIEBER,  Professor  of 
Logic.  University  of  California  Press. 
8vo.,  177  pp. 

This  volume  consists  of  a  series  of  critical 
essays,  which  taken  together  are  intended  as  a  de- 
fense of  the  Aristotelian  logic.  In  the  modern 
indictment  of  formal  logic,  the  chief  attack  has 
been  made  upon  the  traditional  idealistic  view  of 
the  import  of  judgment,  and  upon  Aristotle's  doc- 
trine of  syllogism.  The  author  has  set  forth  a 
view  of  inference  which,  as  he  believes,  provides 
for  a  necessary  factor  in  the  thinking  process  be- 
yond its  pragmatic  characteristics.  He  has  also 
offered  a  new  interpretation  of  Aristotle 's  doctrine 
of  syllogism,  which  rescues  it  from  the  accusation 
of  tautology  and  makes  it  universally  valid. 

Fugitive  Essays 

By  JOSIAH   ROYCE.     Edited  by  JACOB 

LOEWENBERG. 

Of  the  essays  which  comprise  this  volume  only 
the  last  two  bear  a  comparatively  late  date.  The 
others  represent  Professor  Royce's  early  views  on 
literary  and  philosophic  topics.  They  were  writ- 
ten between  the  years  1878  and  1882,  when  he  was 

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Instructor  in  English  at  the  University  of  Cali- 
fornia. Two  features  make  these  essays  attractive 
to  the  student  of  Royce's  philosophy.  One  is  the 
fact  that  in  them  we  find  certain  ideas  which  are 
characteristic  of  all  his  later  writings.  The  out- 
line-form of  his  system  may  be  traced  back  to  these 
early  utterances.  The  other  interest  attached  to 
these  essays  is  their  biographical  value.  It  is  known 
that  Royee  did  not  desire  an  account  of  his  life 
to  be  written.  Those  interested  in  his  mental  bio- 
graphy are  dependent  upon  his  writings.  Thus  his 
early  essays  are  of  immense  value.  Y^ith  their  aid 
we  may  reconstruct  the  formative  period  of  our 
great  philosopher.  In  them  are  mirrored  his  inter- 
est and  his  problems,  his  temperament  and  his 
character. 

Idealism  and  the  Modern  Age 

By  GEORGE  PLIMPTON  ADAMS,  Associate 
Professor  of  Philosophy.  About  250 
pp. 

This  essay  presents  a  study  of  the  relation  be- 
tween certain  moving  forces  and  ideals  in  modern 
life,  such  as  democracy,  science,  the  modern  indus- 
trial order,  and  certain  aspects  of  philosophical 
idealism. 


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The  Idealism  of  Kant's  Successors 

By  JOSIAH  ROYCE.  Edited  with  an  intro- 
duction by  JACOB  LOEWENBERG. 

This  book  consists  of  a  series  of  lectures  deliv- 
ered at  the  Johns  Hopkins  University  in  1906, 
under  the  title  Aspects  of  Post-Kantian  Idealism. 
Aside  from  its  intrinsic  value  the  volume  now 
has  an  added  interest.  Professor  Royce's  con- 
demnation of  modern  Germany,  voiced  in  his 
essays  upon  the  war,  is  peculiarly  impressive  when 
viewed  in  the  light  of  his  intellectual  attachment 
to  her  classic  philosophy.  Germany  is  judged,  not 
by  one  who  disparages  or  belittles,  but  by  one 
who  knows  and  cherishes  the  ideals  of  her  past. 
A  sane  and  sympathetic  appreciation  of  Kant  and 
his  successors  by  one  who  showed  no  hesitancy  in 
denouncing  present  day  Germany  should  be  wel- 
comed by  professional  and  general  students  alike. 

A  Survey  of  Symbolic  Logic 

By  CLARENCE  IRVING  LEWIS,  Assistant 
Professor  of  Philosophy.  University 
of  California  Press.  Large  8vo.,  about 
500  pp. 

Within  the  last  quarter-century  symbolic  logic 
has  been  recognized  as  the  basic  branch  of  mathe- 
matics and  as  a  most  important  instrument  of  all 
exact  deductive  procedure.  Peano's  Formulaire 
des  Mathematiques,  the  Principia  Mathematics,  of 
Whitehead  and  Russell,  and  numerous  other  stud- 
ies of  the  same  sort,  evidence  this  recognition  and 

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growing  importance.  But,  as  frequently  happens 
in  the  case  of  a  new  subject,  the  modes  of  proced- 
ure and  the  notation  of  different  contributors  have 
varied  widely,  so  that  it  is  only  with  the  greatest 
difficulty  that  the  student  can  gain  a  comprehen- 
sive view  of  the  subject  at  the  present  time.  The 
Survey  attempts  to  alleviate  this  difficulty  by 
bringing  within  the  compass  of  a  single  volume, 
and  reducing  to  a  common  notation — so  far  as  pos- 
sible— the  most  important  developments  of  sym- 
bolic logic.  The  first  chapter  gives  a  historical 
summary,  and  later  chapters  develop  systematic- 
ally the  fundamental  branches  of  the  subject. 

Theophrastus  and  the  Greek  Physiological 
Psychology  before  Aristotle 

By  GEORGE  MALCOLM  STRATTON,  Profes- 
sor of  Psychology.  London:  George 
Allen  and  Unwin,  Ltd.;  New  York: 
The  Macmillan  Company.  8vo.,  227  pp. 

Material  that  is  of  great  value  to  students  of 
psychology  and  physiology  is  here  made  available 
for  the  first  time  in  English.  The  volume  contains 
the  text  and  translation,  with  notes,  of  Theophras- 
tus's  writing  On  ike  Senses,  a  writing  which  pre- 
sents a  careful  historical  account  of  the  physiolog- 
ical psychology  not  only  of  vision,  hearing,  and  the 
other  special  senses,  but  also  of  pleasure  and  pain, 
of  intelligence,  and  of  temperament.  By  way  of 
introduction  Professor  Stratton  gives  also  Theo- 
phrastus's  own  views  of  several  of  these  topics  as 

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found  in  the  whole  range  of  his  extant  works. — The 
writing  On  the  Semes  is  the  fullest  account  that 
has  come  down  to  us — indeed  it  is  fuller  than  all 
other  ancient  sources  combined — of  the  physiolog- 
ical psychology  from  Alcmaeon  to  Plato.  An  un- 
usual value  lies  also  in  its  critical  scrutiny  of  this 
earlier  science.  A  considerable  portion  of  the 
writing  On  the  Senses  is  given  over  to  Theophras- 
tus's  reasoned  objections  to  the  theories  and  obser- 
vations of  his  predecessors.  The  reader  thus 
receives  a  vivid  impression  of  the  criticism  to 
which  their  work  was  subjected  by  the  later  Greeks. 


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HISTORY 

The  Breakdown  of  Spanish  Rule  in  South 
America 

By  BERNARD  MOSES,  Professor  of  History 
and  Political  Science,  Emeritus. 
About  300  pp. 

The  writer  of  The  Spanish  Dependencies  in 
South  America  presents  in  the  present  volume  a 
consideration  of  the  last  decades  of  colonial  de- 
pendence in  Spanish  South  America.  He  finds 
that  during  the  period  in  question,  in  spite  of  cer- 
tain measures  of  economic  progress,  the  authority 
and  efficiency  of  the  government  were  declining. 
The  policy  of  the  crown  to  confer  important  offices 
in  America  only  upon  persons  sent  from  Spain, 
led  the  Creoles  and  mestizos  gradually  to  constitute 
themselves  a  society  apart  from  the  Spaniards, 
and  in  opposition  to  the  established  administra- 
tion. Revolts  against  the  policy  of  this  adminis- 
tration and  against  its  imposition  of  specific  fiscal 
burdens  constitute  a  feature  of  this  history,  and 
indicate  that  the  colonies  were  slipping  from  the 
grasp  of  Spain,  even  before  the  Creole-mestizo  ele- 
ments in  the  population  had  clearly  formed  a  de- 
sign for  emancipation.  The  author  gives  a  some- 
what extended  account  of  the  expulsion  of  the 
Jesuits  as  an  act  depriving  the  dependencies  of 
their  ablest  and  most  effective  teachers,  as  well  as 

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of  their  most  energetic  and  far-sighted  industrial 
and  commercial  entrepreneurs.  By  this  act,  more- 
over, the  government  removed  the  only  body  of 
residents  who  manifested  any  clear  conception  of 
the  proper  relations  to  be  maintained  between  the 
Spaniards  and  the  Indians.  The  manner  in  which 
the  development  of  interest  in  science  and  politics 
contributed  to  the  spirit  of  patriotic  independence 
is  illustrated  by  the  careers  of  Mutis  and  Narino. 
This  patriotic  outlook  towards  independence  is 
further  presented  in  the  negotiations  and  expedi- 
tion of  Miranda  and  the  heroic  defense  and  recap- 
ture of  Buenos  Aires  by  the  citizens  after  Viceroy 
Sobrernonte  had  ignominiously  abandoned  the 
field. 

Catalogue  of  Materials  in  the  Archive  Gene- 
ral de  las  Indias  for  the  History  of  the 
Pacific  Coast  and  the  American  South- 
west 

By  CHARLES  EDWARD  CHAPMAN,  Assist- 
ant Professor  of  Latin- American  and 
California   History.     University   of 
California  Press.    8vo.,  about  800  pp. 
This  volume  represents  an  examination  of  some 
250,000  documents,  or  500,000  pages  of  manuscript 
material  (each  page  21%  by  31%  centimetres  in 
size),   from  which  some   25,000   documents  were 
selected  as  having  a  bearing  on  Western  American 
history.    For  purposes  of  entry  the  25,000  docu- 
ments have  been  reduced  to  some  6000  items.    A 

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full  technical  description  and  a  brief  indication  of 
the  contents  of  the  documents  are  given,  and  all  of 
the  items  are  arranged  in  chronological  order. 
Except  for  two  recent  volumes  that  were  based 
very  largely  on  the  materials  of  the  Catalogue 
(The  Founding  of  Spanish  California,  by  Charles 
E.  Chapman :  New  York,  1916 ;  and  Jose  de  Gdlvez, 
Visitor-General  of  New  Spain,  by  Herbert  Ingram 
Priestley:  Berkeley,  1916),  few  works  have  yet 
utilized  the  materials  now  made  available ;  indeed, 
some  5000  items  (or  20,000  documents)  of  excep- 
tional value  have  never  been  used  at  all.  A  hun- 
dred different  volumes  could  find  their  principal 
basis  in  the  documents  which  the  Catalogue  rec- 
ords, and  an  unlimited  number  of  others  may  be 
expected  to  make  use  of  its  information.  Tech- 
nically, the  documents  catalogued  are  of  the  great- 
est value,  since  they  were  the  official  file  of  the 
highest  body  of  Spanish  colonial  machinery  in 
Spain.  They  range  in  date  from  1596  to  1830,  but 
most  of  them  relate  to  the  eighteenth  century. — The 
introduction  to  the  book  contains,  among  other  mat- 
ters, a  section  describing  the  extraordinary  wealth 
of  the  Archive  General  de  las  Indias  of  Seville, 
Spain,  and  another  giving  a  history  of  the  Native 
Sons'  Fellowships  of  the  University  of  California, 
with  an  account  of  the  activities  of  the  various 
fellows. 


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The  Danish  West  Indies  under  Company 
Rule  (1671-1754),  with  a  Supplement- 
ary Chapter  (1755-1917) 

By  WALDEMAR  WESTERGAARD,  Assistant 
Professor  of  History  at  Pomona  Col- 
lege. With  an  Introduction  by  H. 
MORSE  STEPHENS,  Sather  Professor  of 
History  at  the  University  of  Califor- 
nia. Maps  and  illustrations.  New 
York :  The  Macmillan  Company.  8vo., 
xxiv  +  359  pp. 

Dr.  Westergaard,  an  American  scholar  of  Dan- 
ish extraction,  has  here  given  us  the  first  history 
of  the  Danish  West  Indies  written  from  the  pri- 
mary sources.  The  importance  of  the  work  is  con- 
ditioned not  alone  by  the  peculiar  significance  of 
the  West  Indies  in  American  history,  but  also  by 
the  special  fitness  of  Dr.  Westergaard  for  his  task. 
With  a  native  command  of  the  Danish  language, 
the  author  began  his  work  by  a  study  of  original 
documents  in  the  Bancroft  Library.  This  done, 
he  went  to  Denmark  and  spent  a  year  gathering 
the  pertinent  materials  contained  in  the  govern- 
ment archives.  With  the  data  thus  assembled  he 
wrote  the  present  account.  The  book  was  written 
before  the  transfer  of  the  Danish  possessions  to 
the  United  States,  an  event  which  gave  it  especial 
timeliness.  Because  of  the  increased  interest  thus 
attached  to  the  subject  Dr.  Westergaard  added  a 
supplementary  chapter  bringing  the  account  down 
to  the  present.  The  introduction  by  Professor 

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Stephens  makes  clear  the  place  of  the  Danish 
West  Indies  in  the  general  history  of  the  New 
World. 

Father  Kino's  Historical  Memoir  of  the  South- 
west 

Translated  for  the  first  time  into  English 
from  the  original  manuscript  in  the 
Archives  of  Mexico,  edited  and  anno- 
tated by  HERBEKT  EUGENE  BOLTON, 
Professor     of     American     History. 
Cleveland:   Arthur   H.    Clark   Com- 
pany. 2  vols.,  large  8vo.,  about  700  pp. 
This  is  a  careful  translation  of  Kino's  Favor es 
Celestiales,  listed  below.     It   is  preceded  by   an 
extended  and  scholarly  biography  of  Father  Kino, 
is  illustrated  by  maps  and  facsimiles,  and  contains 
a  full  analytical  index.    The  book  records  the  life 
work  of  one  of  America's  most  remarkable  pio- 
neers and  makes  available  to  English  readers  an 
entertaining  first-hand  account  of  the  beginnings 
of  European  civilization  in  southern  Arizona  and 
adjacent  regions. 


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Favores  Celestiales  Experimentados  en  las 
Nuevas  Conquistas  y  Nuevas  Com- 
versiones  de  la  Nueva  Navarra.  By 
Eusebio  Francisco  Kino,  S.  J. 

Now  published  for  the  first  time  in  the 
original  language.  Edited  by  HER- 
BERT EUGENE  BOLTON,  Professor  of 
American  History.  University  of 
California  Press.  8vo.,  about  500  pp. 

Father  Kino  (died  1711),  the  noted  missionary 
of  Pimeria  Alta  (Southern  Arizona  and  Sonora), 
wrote  an  extended  narrative  of  his  quarter  cen- 
tury of  pioneering  on  that  frontier.  This  precious 
manuscript  was  used  by  the  early  Jesuit  historians 
Venegas  and  Ortega,  then  disappeared,  and  has 
been  lost  to  view  for  a  century  and  a  half.  Indeed, 
eminent  scholars,  noting  the  references  of  the  early 
historians  to  a  relation  written  by  Father  Kino, 
denied  that  such  a  work  ever  existed.  This  was 
the  state  of  the  case  until  some  ten  years  ago,  when 
Professor  Bolton  discovered  the  original  manu- 
script in  the  archives  of  Mexico.  He  has  carefully 
edited  the  document  and  is  now  publishing  it  for 
the  first  time  in  the  original  language.  An  Eng- 
lish version  prepared  by  Professor  Bolton  is  listed 
above.  The  publication  of  this  rare  work  puts  on 
a  sound  basis  the  little  known  early  history  of  a 
large  section  of  the  Southwest.  The  Favores 
Celestiales  gives  a  first-hand  account  of  Kino's 
extraordinary  explorations,  his  missionary  work 
among  the  Pimas  and  Yumas,  his  stock-ranching, 

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his  agricultural  enterprises,  and  his  defense  of  the 
outposts  of  civilization  against  Apache  depreda- 
tions. 


The  Formation  of  the  State  of  Oklahoma 
(1803-1906) 

By  EOY  GriTTiNGER,  Prof essor  of  English 
History  in  the  University  of  Okla- 
homa. University  of  California  Press. 
8vo.,  256  pp. 

This  work  is  an  account  of  the  most  notable  in- 
stance in  American  history  of  the  stoppage  and 
the  reopening  of  the  current  of  westward  migra- 
tion. In  1906  Oklahoma,  the  last  state  to  be 
carved  from  the  Louisiana  Purchase,  was  admitted 
to  the  Union.  That  the  region  constituting  Okla- 
homa was  withheld  from  statehood  longer  than  any 
other  portion  of  Louisiana  was  the  result  of  a  long 
series  of  events  connected  with  our  national  In- 
dian policy.  In  1830  a  large  area  west  of  the 
Mississippi  was  set  apart  as  Indian  territory.  A 
quarter  of  a  century  later  the  northern  portion  of 
this  tract  was  organized  into  the  states  of  Kansas 
and  Nebraska.  The  Indians  concentrated  in  the 
Indian  reservation  thus  reduced  did  not  fill  it,  and 
the  unoccupied  lands  were  soon  coveted  by  the 
land  grant  railroad  and  by  white  settlers.  With 
the  removal,  after  long-continued  pressure,  of  the 
legal  barriers  to  the  occupation  of  the  soil,  the 
rush  of  settlers  was  unprecedented,  and  within  a 
decade  the  population  had  reached  a  million  and  a 

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half.  Nevertheless,  admission  to  statehood  was  not 
effected  without  a  struggle.  Dr.  Gittinger  is  the 
first  scholar  to  write  a  comprehensive  account  of 
the  historical  development  of  the  Oklahoma  region 
in  its  larger  relations  with  the  general  course  of 
American  history.  His  work  is  thoroughly  docu- 
mented. 

The  Morale  Scolarium  of  John  Garland,  Pro- 
fessor in  the  University  of  Paris  in  the 
First  Half  of  the  Thirteenth  Century 

Edited  with  introduction  and  notes  by 
Louis  JOHN  PAETOW,  Associate  Pro- 
fessor of  Medieval  History.  Univer- 
sity of  California  Press.  Quarto, 
about  80  pp. 

This  paper  is  a  critical  edition  of  a  hitherto  un- 
published Latin  poem  written  about  the  middle  of 
the  thirteenth  century.  It  throws  new  light  on  the 
life  of  medieval  students  and  on  the  formative 
period  of  the  University  of  Paris. 

The  Processes  of  History 

By  FREDERICK  JOHN  TEGGART,  Associate 
Professor  of  History.  New  Haven, 
Conn. :  Yale  University  Press.  About 
150  pp. 

Hitherto  the  products  of  historical  investiga- 
tion have  been  utilized  primarily  for  the  construc- 
tion of  narratives  of  events ;  this  publication  repre- 

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sents  a  first  attempt  to  determine  what  sort  of 
results  would  be  obtained  by  a  strict  application 
of  the  method  of  science  to  the  facts  of  human 
history.  Following  the  precedents  established  in 
evolutionary  study,  more  particularly  of  organic 
nature  and  of  language,  the  author  points  out  that 
the  scientific  examination  of  history  should  enable 
us  to  determine  the  factors  and  processes  through 
which  man  has  come  to  be  as  he  is,  and  thus  to 
account  for  the  wide  diversity  at  present  mani- 
fested in  the  political  and  intellectual  status  of 
human  groups.  In  the  present  instance  all  that  is 
attempted  is  a  tentative  analysis  of  these  factors 
and  processes;  but  in  the  course  of  the  argument 
it  becomes  apparent  that,  so  conducted,  the  study 
of  history  throws  a  new  light  upon  the  nature  of 
the  activities  characteristic  of  modern  political 
organizations. 


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LITERATURE  AND  LANGUAGE 

Cervantes 

By  RUDOLPH  SCHEVILL,  Professor  of 
Spanish.  New  York:  Duffield  and 
Company.  Small  8vo.,  about  375  pp. 
This  volume  rehearses  the  chief  events  of  Cer- 
vantes '  life,  and  attempts  to  give  an  estimate  of  his 
various  works.  The  facts  recently  discovered  re- 
garding various  members  of  his  family,  the  new 
light  thrown  on  his  career  by  numerous  documents 
found  in  Spanish  archives,  the  interesting  investi- 
gations in  his  writings  by  modern  critics,  permit  a 
new  presentation  of  his  life  and  literary  art.  An 
attempt  is  also  made  to  relate  his  chief  work  to  his 
times  and  to  show  how  he  reflects  the  culture  of  the 
Spanish  Renascence. — The  book  is  one  of  a  series  of 
volumes  on  "Master  Spirits  of  Literature,"  edited 
by  Professors  Noyes  and  Hart  of  the  University 
of  California,  in  which  Professor  Noyes 's  work  on 
Tolstoy,  listed  below,  is  also  included. 

Cicero:  a  Biography 

By  TORSTEN  PETERSSON,   Instructor  in 

Latin.    About  500  pp. 
The  purpose  of  this  book  is  to  give  as  compre- 
hensive an  account  of  Cicero  as  a  single  volume 
will  permit.     It  endeavors  to  keep  a  proper  pro- 

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portion  between  his  political  activities  and  his 
accomplishments  as  an  orator  and  a  writer  of 
essays  and  letters.  It  aims  to  present  the  Roman 
background,  which  alone  can  make  the  narrative 
intelligible  to  any  but  the  special  student ;  to  deter- 
mine and  to  make  clear  the  Roman  attitude  toward 
a  man's  work  in  the  world,  the  political  atmo- 
sphere of  Rome,  the  spirit  in  which  the  orators 
spoke,  and  the  Roman  view  of  rhetoric,  philosophy, 
and  writing.  Above  all,  it  seeks  to  give  a  narrative 
of  Cicero's  life  as  it  unfolded  from  one  period  to 
another,  and  to  convey  a  little  of  the  spirit  that 
animated  him.  The  book  is  intended  for  reading 
and  not  for  reference.  Controversy  has  on  the 
whole  been  excluded.  The  notes  are  brief  and  rela- 
tively few.  A  brief  bibliography  is  added. 

The  Dramatic  Art  of  Lope  de  Vega 

By   EUDOLPH    SCHEVILL,    Professor   of 
Spanish.     University  of   California 
Press.    8vo.,  about  400  pp. 
This  volume  sets  forth  the  main  characteristics 
of  Lope  de  Vega 's  methods  of  composing,  his  origi- 
nality as  well  as  his  dependence  upon  tradition,  his 
gift  of  improvisation,  and  his  poetic  charm.     The 
pictures   which   he   presents   are   compared   with 
actual  contemporary  life  in  order  to  determine  the 
extent  to  which  he  holds  a  mirror  up  to  nature. 
His  methods  are  illustrated  by  means  of  citations 
from  various  plays,  both  tragedies  and  comedies, 
and  a  concrete  example  is  given  in  La  Dama  Bob  a, 

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a  play  printed  entire  and  edited  from  an  auto- 
graph manuscript.  Inasmuch  as  Lope  wrote  with 
unparalleled  speed,  careful  study  of  his  play 
throws  a  great  deal  of  light  on  his  art,  its  artifices 
as  well  as  its  abiding  worth. 


Edmund  Spenser:  a  Critical  Study 

By  HERBERT  ELLSWORTH  CORY,  Assistant 
Professor  of  English.  University  of 
California  Press.  8vo.,  478  pp. 
This  volume  is  a  study  of  Spenser's  poetry  on 
the  basis  of  his  works,  their  chief  sources,  and  the 
collective  opinion  of  Spenser  in  his  own  and  subse- 
quent periods.  Its  chief  positions  are  as  follows. 
The  romantic  attitude  towards  Spenser  prevails 
today  and  is  accountable  in  large  measure  for  the 
very  fragmentary  appreciation  of  his  merits.  If 
we  emulate  the  " neo-classical' '  interest  in  Spen- 
ser's allegory  without  sacrificing  the  contributions 
of  romanticism  and  if  we  take  quite  seriously  the 
poet 's  own  declaration  of  purposes,  we  find  him  to 
be  less  detached  from  life  than  has  been  commonly 
supposed.  Above  all  we  find  him  attempting  a 
unique  masterpiece,  an  epic  of  prophecy  in  which 
he  sought  not  to  celebrate  but  to  make  history. 
From  this  point  of  view  the  cycle  of  youthful  faith, 
tragic  disillusion,  and  utimate  serene  self -conquest 
appears  vividly  and  impressively  in  The  Faerie 
Queene  and  in  his  other  works.  We  are  confronted 
with  one  of  the  most  audacious  failures  in  the  his- 
tory of  literature.  We  are  confronted  with  inti- 

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mate  and  lofty  hopes  and  fears  for  the  destiny  of 
man  that  seem  to  foreshadow  many  of  our  own 
most  poignant  hopes  and  fears  about  society 
today. 

English-German  Literary  Influences:  Survey 
and  Bibliography 

By  LAWEENCE  MAESDEN  PEICE,  Instruc- 
tor in  German.  University  of  Cali- 
fornia Press.  8vo.,  about  300  pp. 
Despite  the  generally  recognized  importance 
of  the  influence  of  English  literature  on  German, 
especially  during  the  formative  period  of  the  lat- 
ter, about  1720-70,  there  is  no  comprehensive 
treatise  on  the  topic.  Instead  of  this  there  is  an 
abundance  of  widely  scattered  reports  of  special 
investigators.  In  the  present  volume  the  bibliogra- 
phy of  nearly  one  thousand  titles  attempts  to 
organize  the  study  of  English-German  literary 
influences,  classifying  all  available  material.  It  is 
divided  into  three  parts,  of  which  the  second  treats 
of  the  influence  of  Shakespeare  in  Germany,  the 
first  of  other  English  influences  up  to  the  end  of 
the  eighteenth  century,  and  the  third  of  such  influ- 
ences in  the  nineteenth  century.  The  survey, 
which  is  similarly  divided,  records  the  progress  of 
investigation  and  by  reviewing  the  important 
treatises  summarizes  our  present  knowledge  of  the 
subject.  The  first  part  of  the  survey  shows  that 
Koch's  much  quoted  treatise  Uber  die  Beziehungen 
der  deutschen  Literatur  zur  Englischen  im  18. 
Jahrhundert  (1883)  should  no  longer  be  cited  as 

[22] 


an  authority,  but  that  special  investigations  should 
be  substituted  for  it.  The  second  part  shows  that 
special  investigators  in  many  cases  have  disposed 
of  errors  in  regard  to  the  history  of  Shakespeare 
in  Germany  which  are  nevertheless  still  repeated 
in  general  literary  histories.  The  third  part  is 
the  first  attempt  to  summarize  English-German 
literary  relations  in  the  nineteenth  century. 

L'exotisme  americain  dans  Poeuvre  de 
Chateaubriand 

Par  CHAELES  GILBERT  CHINARD,  profes- 
seur  de  la  langue  et  litterature  fran- 
gaises.  Paris :  Hachette.  Small  8vo., 
ix  +  305  pp. 

The  opening  chapters  of  this  volume  deal  with 
the  life  of  Chateaubriand  from  his  early  years  in 
Combourg  to  his  return  from  exile  in  the  spring 
of  1800,  and  include  a  discussion  of  his  travels  in 
America.  Evidence  is  given  that  Chateaubriand 
saw  Niagara  Falls  and  that  he  traveled  in  America 
more  extensively  than  is  generally  admitted.  The 
later  chapters  give  an  analysis  of  Chateaubriand's 
American  novels.  These  were  written  in  England 
during  his  exile,  and  Les  Natchez  may  be  regarded 
as  the  history  of  the  author's  mind  from  1791  to 
1799.  The  documentation  of  the  author  is  very 
thorough  both  in  Les  Natchez  and  in  Atala.  Cha- 
teaubriand consulted  the  best  authorities  and  took 
great  care  to  follow  very  closely  the  history  of  the 
Natchez  rebellion.  But  he  is  not  a  plagiarist.  The 

[23] 


theme  of  Atala,  however,  was  not  new;  and  for  it 
he  borrowed  several  episodes  from  little-known 
works  published  at  the  end  of  the  eighteenth 
century. 

Francisco  Navarro  Villoslada 

By  BEATRICE  QUIJADA  CORNISH,  Assist- 
ant in  Spanish.  University  of  Cali- 
fornia Press.  8vo.,  about  85  pp. 
There  exists  no  adequate  discussion  of  the  life 
and  works  of  Francisco  Navarro  Villoslada,  the 
great  historical  novelist  of  the  romantic  school,  the 
Walter  Scott  of  Basque  traditions.  No  life  of 
Villoslada  has  been  published,  no  comprehensive 
literary  appreciation  has  been  written,  no  political 
estimate  of  the  man  has  been  attempted,  and  no 
complete  bibliography  of  his  writings  is  possible, 
on  account  of  the  difficulty  in  procuring  all  his 
works,  and  in  particular  because  of  the  vast 
amount  of  unpublished  material.  The  main  con- 
tribution in  the  present  study  is  to  be  found  in  the 
presentation  of  details  of  Villoslada 's  life,  chiefly 
through  the  use  of  materials  recently  received 
from  Spain,  and  in  a  general  survey  of  his  literary, 
political,  and  journalistic  labors.  The  appendix 
contains  the  first  preliminary  bibliography  of  Vill- 
oslada's  works. — The  year  1918  marks  the  celebra- 
tion in  Pamplona  of  the  centenary  of  the  birth  of 
Villoslada.  Reviewing  the  whole  subject  as  atten- 
tively as  was  possible,  Mrs.  Cornish  has  attempted 
to  make  appreciative  use  of  all  available  material, 
in  a  desire  to  secure  more  general  regard  for  the 

[24] 


character  and  genius  of  a  man  who  has  never, 
either  in  this  country  or  abroad,  received  the  rec- 
ognition that  he  merits. 

Goethe  and  Sterne 

By  WILLIAM  EGBERT  EICHARD  FINGER, 
late  Assistant  Professor  of  German. 
University  of  California  Press.  8vo., 
about  50  pp. 

The  question  of  Goethe's  relation  to  Laurence 
Sterne  has  always  interested  and  sometimes  puz- 
zled Goethe  scholars.  Among  the  papers  of  the 
late  Professor  Finger  there  was  found  a  rich  fund 
of  material  dealing  with  this  relation,  the  product 
of  several  years  of  collection.  The  notes  throw 
light  upon  the  extent  of  Goethe's  indebtedness  to 
Sterne,  upon  Goethe's  participation  along  with 
Sterne  in  the  sentimental  trend  of  the  times,  upon 
Goethe's  alleged  plagiarism  of  Sterne  and  kindred 
topics.  Professor  Pinger  planned  to  make  these 
notes  the  basis  of  a  contribution  to  the  Semicen- 
tennial Publications. 

The  Greek  Theatre  of  the  Fifth  Century 

By  JAMES  TURNEY  ALLEN,  Associate  Pro- 
fessor of  Greek.    University  of  Cali- 
fornia Press.    8vo.,  about  200  pp. 
The  purpose  of  this  treatise  is  to  attempt  a 
reconstruction  of  the  theatre  at  Athens  in  the  fifth 
century  before  Christ,  which  was  the  golden  age  of 
the  Greek  drama.    Unfortunately  the  meagreness 

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of  the  remains  of  this  early  theatre  makes  neces- 
sary frequent,  indeed  almost  constant  recourse  to 
conjecture.  The  matter  is  presented,  therefore,  in 
the  form  of  an  argument,  in  the  course  of  which  a 
large  portion  of  the  controversial  literature  deal- 
ing with  this  subject  during  the  last  thirty  or 
forty  years  is  passed  in  review. 

Kipling  the  Story  Writer 

By  WALTEK  MOKKIS  HAKT,  Associate  Pro- 
fessor of  English  Philology.  Univer- 
sity of  California  Press.  Small  8vo., 
about  200  pp. 

This  volume  is  a  study  of  the  technique  of  Kip- 
ling's  short  stories  and  aims  to  trace  the  develop- 
ment of  his  narrative  art  from  its  beginnings  to 
1910. 

Lexicological  Evolution  and  Conceptual 
Progress 

By  JOHN  TAGGAKT  CLAEK,  Assistant  Pro- 
fessor of  Eomanic  Philology.  Univer- 
sity of  California  Press.  8vo.,  about 
30pp. 

In  this  paper  attention  is  directed  more  con- 
cretely than  appears  to  have  yet  been  done  to  the 
importance  of  studying  comparatively  the  lexical 
history  of  different  peoples  from  the  point  of  view 
of  conceptual  growth.  The  vocabulary  of  a  people 
may  be  taken  as  a  measure  of  that  people's  men- 
tality, both  as  regards  capacity  to  observe  and  in- 

[26] 


terest  in  observing.  The  languages  of  primitive 
peoples  are  universally  characterized  by  a  "hope- 
less poverty  of  abstraction"  (Farrar),  and  an 
exuberant  wealth  of  perceptual  detail.  The  his- 
tory of  cultured  languages  reveals,  on  the  other 
hand,  a  uniform  and  constant  progress  toward 
higher  conceptual  power.  The  expression  of  per- 
ceptual ideas  tends  ever  toward  wider  generaliza- 
tions, while  that  of  superperceptual  ideas  tends 
toward  a  more  analytical  and  discriminating  pre- 
cision. The  Romanic  languages  are  shown  to  pre- 
sent striking  testimony  in  this  regard.  As  an  ex- 
ample of  progressive  differentiation  within  a  given 
superperceptual  category  there  is  presented  the 
chronology  of  a  certain  class  of  words  in  English. 
Attention  is  called  to  the  inexhaustible  wealth  of 
richly  significant  material  directly  accessible  for 
the  study  of  psycho-lexical  evolution,  and  to  the 
value  of  this  study  for  a  deeper  understanding  of 
the  principles  underlying  the  growth  of  conceptual 
intelligence. 

The  Lay  of  the  Cid 

Translated  from  the  Spanish  by  EOBEKT 
SELDEN  ROSE,  Instructor  in  Spanish 
in  the  Sheffield  Scientific  School,  and 
LEONARD  BACON,  Instructor  in  Eng- 
lish in  the  University  of  California. 
University  of  California  Press.  8vo., 
about  200  pp. 

The  Lay  of  the  Cid  is  the  earliest  epic  poem 
of  the  Spanish  people.     It  was  composed  by  an 

[27] 


unknown  author,  probably  in  the  twelfth  century, 
and  has  been  preserved  in  a  single  manuscript. 
The  work  is  one  of  the  most  precious  documents 
that  we  possess  on  the  medieval  civilization  of  the 
Peninsula.  It  is  characterized  by  vigor  and 
directness,  by  a  stirring  martial  spirit  typical  of 
the  day  in  which  it  was  written.  The  translators 
have  made  an  effort  to  preserve  these  traits  and 
still  make  the  poem  intelligible  to  the  modern 
reader. 


Lucreti  De  Rerum  Natura  Libri  Sex 

Becognovit  GUILELMUS  AUGUSTUS  MER- 
RILL, Universitatis  Calif  orniensis  Pro- 
fessor. University  of  California  Press. 
Small  8vo.,  258  pp. 

This  book  is  the  result  of  an  effort  to  establish 
the  text  of  Lucretius,  both  by  retaining  the  read- 
ings of  the  principal  manuscripts  and  by  emend- 
ing corrupt  passages.  It  also  strives  to  show  that 
the  order  of  paragraphs  in  the  original  manu- 
scripts is  probably  logically  correct,  and  that  the 
poem  is  in  a  more  nearly  finished  condition  than  it 
has  previously  been  considered  to  be. 


[28] 


Methods  and  Materials  of  Literary  Criticism: 
Lyric,  Epic,  and  Allied  Forms  of  Poetry 

By  CHARLES  MILLS  GAYLEY,  Professor  of 
English,  and  BENJAMIN  PUTNAM 
KURTZ,  Associate  Professor  of  Eng- 
lish. Boston:  Ginn  and  Company. 
8vo.,  xi  +  900  pp. 

This  work  is  a  survey  of  the  theoretical  and 
historical  criticism  of  the  lyric  and  epic  in  general 
and  of  such  special  forms  as  elegy,  epigram,  ode, 
sonnet,  song,  ballad,  pastoral,  and  idyl.  The  crit- 
ical theory  of  each  form  is  summarized  in  three 
parts :  (1)  analysis  of  the  chief  problems  in  theory, 
(2)  annotated  bibliography  of  the  more  impor- 
tant references,  (3)  outlines  of  the  development 
of  critical  theory  in  the  various  nations,  ancient 
and  modern.  The  historical  study  of  each  type  is 
considered  under  three  similar  heads:  (1)  analysis 
of  the  chief  problems  in  historical  criticism,  (2) 
annotated  bibliography  of  the  more  important 
references,  (3)  outlines  of  the  development  of  each 
type  in  the  various  nations,  ancient  and  modern, 
supplemented  by  summaries  of  apparatus  for  his- 
torical study.  In  a  word,  the  book  aims  to  present 
the  advanced  student  of  lyric  and  epic  poetry  with 
a  digest  of  the  methods  and  materials  of  his  field. 


[29] 


Les  Natchez  de  Chateaubriand,  livres  I  et  II, 
edites  avec  des  notes  critiques 

Par  CHARLES  GILBERT  CHINARD,  profes- 
seur  de  la  langue  et  litterature  fran- 
§aises.  University  of  California  Press. 
8vo.,  about  100  pp. 

Les  Natchez,  though  written  during  Chateau- 
briand's exile  in  England,  was  not  published  until 
1826,  and  some  critics  maintain  that  Chateaubriand 
made  many  corrections  and  even  rewrote  a  large 
part  of  the  work  before  publishing  it.  The  notes 
to  this  volume  show  that  Chateaubriand  could  not 
have  written  Les  Natchez  in  1826  and  that  he  imi- 
tates chiefly  the  poets  that  he  read  in  England, 
particularly  Milton  and  Tasso.  Passages  borrowed 
by  him  from  different  authors,  many  of  them 
American  travelers,  are  given  in  full. 

Obras  completas  de  Miguel  de  Cervantes 
Saavedra 

Edicion  publicada  por  EODOLFO  SCHEVILL, 
Profesor  en  la  Universidad  de  Cali- 
fornia (Berkeley)  y  ADOLFO  BONILLA, 
Profesor  en  la  Universidad  de  Ma- 
drid.   Madrid :  imprenta  de  Bernardo 
Rodriguez.    Small  8vo. 
No  critical  edition  of  the  complete  works  of 
Cervantes  has  hitherto  been  attempted.    The  main 
object  of  the  present  edition  is  therefore  to  present 
a   reliable  text,   by  reprinting  the   first   editions 
in  the  most  trustworthy  manner  possible.     The 

[30] 


editors  have  added  explanatory  notes  wherever 
the  context  required  them,  in  order  that  the  mod- 
ern reader  may  understand  features  of  language 
or  culture  no  longer  clear  today.  Each  volume, 
of  moderate  size,  is  designed  to  contain  about  300 
pages,  of  large  type,  clearly  printed.  The  entire 
edition  will  contain  about  eighteen  volumes.  Of  it 
two  volumes,  of  Cervantes'  comedias  y  entremeses, 
published  in  1918,  have  been  included  in  the  Semi- 
centennial Publications  of  the  University  of  Cali- 
fornia. 

PanTadeusz;  or,  The  Last  Foray  in  Lithuania: 
a  story  of  life  among  Polish  gentlefolk 
in  the  years  1811  and  1812,  by  Adam 
Mickiewicz 

Translated  from  the  Polish  by  GEORGE 
EAPALL  NOTES,  Associate  Professor  of 
Slavic  Languages.     London:   J.   M. 
Dent  and  Sons,  Ltd.;  New  York:  E. 
P.  Button  and  Co.  8vo.,xxiv  +  354pp. 
Pan  Tadeusz,  first  published  in  1834,  is  the 
national  epic  of  the  Polish  people,  the  masterpiece 
of  all  Polish  literature.     It  is  better  known  and 
loved  by  all  Poles  than  is  any  masterpiece  of  Eng- 
lish literature  by  speakers  of  English.     The  only 
previous  English  translation  of  the  poem  is  now 
out  of  print.    The  present  version  strives  to  present 
Mickiewicz  'a  epic  in  idiomatic  and  readable  Eng- 
lish prose.     The  introduction  and  notes  by  the 
translator    give   the    information    needed    for   an 
understanding  of  the  position  of  the  poem  in  Polish 
[31] 


literature,  and  of  the  allusions  to  Polish  history 
and  ways  of  life  contained  in  it. 

Plays  by  Alexander  Ostrovsky:  A  Protegee 
of  the  Mistress,  Poverty  is  No  Crime, 
Sin  and  Sorrow  are  Common  to  All, 
It's  a  Family  Affair— We'll  Settle  it 
Ourselves 

A  translation  from  the  Russian,  edited  by 
GEORGE  RAP  ALL  NOTES,  Associate  Pro- 
fessor of  Slavic  Languages.  New 
York :  Charles  Scribner  's  Sons.  Small 
8vo.,  305  pp. 

Alexander  Ostrovsky  (1823-86)  is  the  great 
Russian  dramatist  of  the  central  decades  of  the 
nineteenth  century,  of  the  realistic  period  in  Rus- 
sian literature  which  is  represented  in  fiction  by 
Tolstoy,  Turgenev,  Dostoyevsky,  and  Goncharov. 
His  work  in  the  drama  takes  its  place  beside  theirs 
in  the  novel.  He  has  been  singularly  neglected  by 
translators,  since  only  three  of  his  plays  have 
hitherto  appeared  in  English.  The  present  volume 
includes  four  important  dramas,  translated  by 
students  in  the  Slavic  Department  of  the  Univer- 
sity of  California:  Jane  W.  Robertson,  Minnie 
Eline  Sadicoff,  and  John  Laurence  Seymour.  Mr. 
Leonard  Bacon  of  the  English  Department  has 
given  appropriate  form  to  the  verses  included  in 
Poverty  is  No  Crime.  Professor  Noyes  has  revised 
the  book  for  the  press  and  has  added  a  short  intro- 
duction. 

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Serbia  Crucified 

By  MILUTIN  KEUNICH,  Lieutenant  in  the 
Serbian  Army,  Assistant  in  Serbo- 
Croatian.  Boston:  Houghton  Mifflin 
Company.  12mo.,  304  pp. 

This  volume  is  a  narrative,  by  a  witness  of  the 
scenes  described  and  an  actor  in  them,  of  the 
tragic  history  of  Serbia  in  the  autumn  of  1915, 
when  that  country,  unaided  by  her  allies,  was  de- 
fending herself  from  attacks  of  immensely  superior 
Austrian,  German,  and  Bulgarian  armies.  Of  its 
four  chapters  the  first  describes  how  Nish,  the 
heart  of  Serbia,  was  torn  from  her.  Though  her 
heart  was  torn  out,  Serbia  still  lived.  Her  sons, 
slowly  retreating,  fought  incessantly,  unable  to 
believe  that  they  must  lose  their  soul  also — liberty. 
These  most  dreadful  moments  are  described  in  the 
chapters,  "The  Graveyard  by  the  Morava  River," 
and  "The  Place  of  the  Skull."  Then  the  exhaus- 
tion began.  Thousands  perished  in  the  retreat 
through  Albania.  In  the  fourth  chapter  such  a 
death  is  described.  A  little  child,  without  father 
or  mother,  alone,  hungry,  and  half -dead,  was  found 
on  the  road  and  adopted  by  a  company.  Weak, 
ill,  and  famished,  it  died  in  the  hands  of  those 
unhappy  Serbians. 


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Shakespeare  and  the  Founders  of  Liberty  in 
America 

By  CHAKLES  MILLS  GAYLEY,  Professor  of 
of  the  English  Language  and  Litera- 
ture. New  York:  The  Macmillan 
Company.  Small  8vo.,  270  pp. 

This  book  is  a  presentation  of  historical  facts 
not  generally  known.  It  shows  that  Shakespeare 
was  acquainted  with  several  of  the  Patriots  of  the 
Virginia  Council  in  London  who  achieved  the  first 
charters  of  liberty  for  Virginia  and  New  England, 
that  he  was  the  personal  friend  of  some  of  the  most 
important  among  them,  and  that  he  was  indebted 
for  materials  incorporated  in  The  Tempest  to  con- 
fidential information  jealously  guarded  by  the 
Virginia  Council,  accessible  only  to  well-wishers  of 
the  Patriots,  and  not  published  till  nine  years  after 
the  poet's  death.  The  author  maintains  that 
Shakespeare  held  well-defined  opinions  concerning 
government  and  the  rights  and  responsibilities  of 
the  individual  in  relation  to  it,  and  that  many  of 
the  poet 's  utterances  and  the  drift  of  his  historical 
plays  reveal  his  sympathy  with  the  views  of 
Sandys,  Southampton,  and  the  other  leaders  of 
the  Patriot  party  in  the  reign  of  James  I,  and  with 
the  political  principles  of  Eichard  Hooker,  the 
philosopher  of  the  liberal  movement.  The  prin- 
ciples asserted  by  these  men — the  Founders  of 
Liberty  in  America — as  developed  in  the  Colonies 
and  in  England  and  reasserted  by  John  Locke, 
were  the  inspiration  of  our  Revolutionary  fore- 

[34] 


fathers  and  passed  into  the  Declaration  of  Inde- 
pendence and  the  Constitution  of  the  United 
States.  They  are  the  common  heritage  of  demo- 
cratic ideas  and  institutions  for  which  the  British 
Empire,  France,  and  America  are  fighting  today — 
a  heritage  derived  from  statesmen  of  early  seven- 
teenth century  England  who  were  the  friends  of 
Shakespeare. 

Solon  the  Athenian 

By  IVAN  MOKTIMEK  LINTORTH,  Associate 
Professor  of  Greek.  University  of 
California  Press.  8vo.,  about  150  pp. 
The  purpose  of  this  volume  is  to  make  easily 
accessible  to  the  student  or  to  the  general  reader 
all  that  we  know  about  the  first  Athenian  poet 
and  lawgiver.  The  book  contains  an  essay  on  the 
life  and  works  of  Solon,  a  critical  text  of  the  frag- 
ments of  his  poems,  with  translation  and  commen- 
tary, excursuses  on  matters  requiring  special  in- 
vestigation, a  bibliography,  and  indices.  At 
present  the  only  available  information  about 
Solon  is  contained  in  large  histories  of  Greece. 
His  poems  are  to  be  found  only  in  large  editions  of 
all  the  fragments  of  early  Greek  poetry,  and  there 
is  no  complete  translation  and  commentary  in 
English. 


[35] 


Studies  in  Biblical  Parallelism 

By  Louis  I.  NEWMAN  and  WILLIAM  POP- 
PEE,  Associate  Professor  of  Semitic 
Languages.  University  of  California 
Press.  Large  8vo.,  about  380  pp. 

The  main  characteristic  of  the  literary  form  of 
Hebrew  poetry  and  prophecy  is  the  parallelism  of 
two  or  more  successive  lines:  each  thought  is  in 
general  expressed  not  once,  but  twice  or  more 
often,  in  synonymous  or  in  antithetic  words  and 
imagery.  But  while  this  characteristic  predomi- 
nates, there  are  occasional  lines  not  so  paralleled. 
The  purpose  of  these  studies  was  to  discover  if 
possible  a  reason  for  the  variations  in  Amos  and  in 
Isaiah,  chapters  1-10.  In  some  cases  a  plausible 
explanation  has  been  found;  in  the  majority, 
however,  it  was  observed  that  just  where  the  par- 
allelism was  defective  the  text  was  obscure  and 
apparently  in  need  of  emendation.  Accordingly 
on  the  basis  of  parallelism  an  emendation  for  each 
such  verse  has  been  suggested.  In  addition  Mr. 
Newman  has  added  a  general  introduction  on  the 
development  of  parallelism  and  its  use  both  in 
other  Semitic  and  in  various  non-Semitic  lan- 
guages, has  classified  all  the  verses  of  Amos  accord- 
ing to  certain  types,  and  has  examined  into  the 
probable  stanzaic  formation  of  some  of  the  prophe- 
cies. Professor  Popper  has  treated  the  first  ten 
chapters  of  Isaiah,  verse  by  verse,  from  the  same 
point  of  view ;  and  has  translated  the  reconstructed 
text  in  such  a  way  as  to  show  some  of  the  other 

[36] 


stylistic  characteristics  of  the  original:  the  com- 
parative length  of  line,  the  rhythm,  and  the  asson- 
ance. 

Studies  in  Spanish  Dramatic  Versification: 
Alarcon  and  Moreto 

By  SYLVANUS  GKISWOLD  MOKLEY,  Assist- 
ant Professor  of  Spanish.  University 
of  California  Press.  8vo.,  about  30 
pp. 

Spanish  plays  written  in  verse  include  a  great 
variety  of  different  meters.  The  use  of  them  dif- 
fers, both  in  the  form  and  in  the  amount  of  each, 
in  the  work  of  different  playwrights.  Two  previ- 
ous articles,  published  in  the  Bulletin  hispanique, 
attempted  to  determine  the  characteristics,  from 
the  metrical  point  of  view,  of  the  dramatist  Tirso 
de  Molina.  The  present  study  extends  the  inquiry 
to  two  other  authors.  Each  is  found  to  possess 
special  predilections  which  furnish  a  basis  for  de- 
termining the  authorship  of  disputed  plays. 

A  Study  in  the  Writings  of  Don  Mariano  Jose 
de  Larra 

By  ELIZABETH  McGuiBE,  Instructor  in 

Spanish.     University  of   California 

Press.    8vo.,  about  40  pp. 

Nothing  has  been  written  in  English  about  Don 

Mariano  Jose  de  Larra  (1809-37),  who  is  conceded 

by  his  compatriots  to  be  Spain's  greatest  modern 

[37] 


satirist.  Critics  have  emphasized  his  early  for- 
eign training  and  are  given  to  stating  that  the  best 
of  his  work  is  plagiarized.  The  purpose  of  the 
present  paper  is  to  mention  and  classify  his  chief 
commentators,  to  enumerate  his  various  literary 
attempts,  to  determine  whether  he  is  a  classicist  or 
a  romanticist,  to  lay  stress  on  the  historical  impor- 
tance of  his  articles  written  between  1832  and 
1837,  to  discuss  the  significance  of  his  pseudonym 
Figaro;  and,  finally,  to  trace  the  sources  of  his 
dramatic  productions  to  Scribe,  Ducange,  and 
Delavigne,  and,  by  comparison,  to  set  forth  which 
of  his  works  are  translations  and  which  are  adapta- 
tions. 


Tolstoy 

By  GEORGE  RAPALL  NOTES,  Associate  Pro- 
fessor of  Slavic  Languages.  New 
York :  Duffield  and  Company.  Small 
8vo.,  395  pp. 

This  volume  is  a  biography  of  Tolstoy  as  a  man 
of  letters.  It  gives  only  such  details  of  his  life  as 
serve  to  illustrate  his  literary  work  or  the  person- 
ality that  found  expression  therein.  It  strives  to 
give  an  estimate  of  his  genius  as  a  novelist,  as  an 
educator,  and  as  a  writer  on  religious,  social,  and 
esthetic  questions.  It  emphasizes  the  essential 
unity  of  Tolstoy's  work  and  his  relation  to  the 
main  currents  of  Russian  life  and  thought  in  the 
nineteenth  century;  in  a  word,  it  presents  him  as 
the  master  spirit  among  Russian  authors. — The 

[38] 


book  is  one  of  a  series  of  volumes  on  "Master 
Spirits  of  Literature, ' '  edited  by  Professors  Noyes 
and  Hart  of  the  University  of  California,  in  which 
Professor  Schevill's  work  on  Cervantes,  listed 
above,  is  also  included. 

Twenty-Two  Goblins 

Translated  from  the  Sanskrit  by  ARTHUR 
WILLIAM  RYDER,  Assistant  Professor 
of  Sanskrit.    London :  J.  M.  Dent  and 
Sons,  Ltd.;  New  York:  E.  P.  Button 
and  Co.    8vo.,  viii  +  220  pp. 
This  book  is  a  translation  of  an  ancient  Sanskrit 
collection  of  marvelous  stories.    The  author  of  the 
work  is  unknown  and  its  date  cannot  be  exactly 
determined,  but  it  has  been,  for  something  like 
two  thousand  years,  extremely  popular  in  India 
and   other   countries   of  Asia.      The   translator's 
effort  has  been  to  present  this  matter  in  a  form 
interesting  to  the  English-speaking  world.     Two 
stories    of    the    original    have    been    omitted,    on 
grounds    of   taste;    otherwise   the    translation   is 
closely  literal.    An  attractive  feature  of  the  book 
is  found  in  twenty  colored  illustrations  by  Mr. 
Perham  William  Nahl  of  the  Department  of  Draw- 
ing in  the  University  of  California. 


[39] 


What  is  an  Indicative?    Prolegomena  to  a 
Study  of  Moods 

By  HEKMAN  JULIUS  WEBER,  Associate 
Professor  of  German.  University  of 
California  Press.  8vo.,  about  45  pp. 
This  paper  sets  forth  the  history  of  the  concep- 
tion of  the  indicative  on  the  part  of  leading  gram- 
marians, primarily  in  the  field  of  the  classic  lan- 
guages, from  Dionysius  Thrax  to  the  present  time, 
and  attempts  to  show  that  the  indicative,  which 
has  been  commonly  regarded  from  a  merely  gram- 
matical point  of  view  as  one  of  the  moods,  has  in 
reality  nothing  in  common  with  these  except  the 
psychologically  predicative  function.  The  indica- 
tive, presupposing  as  it  does  the  non-differentia- 
tion of  the  psychological  subject  and  object,  and 
denoting  the  absolute  verbal  conception,  rendered 
concrete  by  predication,  must  be  regarded  as  a 
distinct  category  of  the  verb. 

The  World  Conception  of  the  Chinese:  their 
Cosmological,  Astronomical,  and  Phys- 
ico-philosophical  Speculations 

By  ALFKED  FOEKE,  Agassiz  Professor  of 
Oriental  Languages  and  Literature. 
University  of  California  Press.  8vo., 
about  250  pp. 

A  great  deal  has  been  written  on  the  religion, 
ethics,  and  metaphysics,  but  very  little  on  the  nat- 
ural philosophy  of  the  Chinese.  It  is  scarcely 

[40] 


known  that  they  possess  a  very  complete  theory 
explaining  the  origin  of  the  world,  its  elements, 
and  the  phenomena  of  nature  resulting  from  their 
inter-action.  These  investigations  are  not  less  in- 
genious than  those  of  the  Greeks  or  those  of  the 
Hindus  in  their  Vaiceshika  system.  Availing  him- 
self of  all  the  ancient  and  modern  Chinese  texts 
bearing  on  the  subject,  the  author  of  this  volume 
gives  the  first  systematic  survey  of  this  most  inter- 
esting and  important  branch  of  Chinese  philoso- 
phy, showing  how  at  different  times  the  Chinese 
conceived  of  the  universe  and  its  parts,  heaven, 
earth,  the  stars,  etc.  In  their  systems  the  rudi- 
ments of  astronomy  and  natural  science  are  inter- 
woven with  philosophical  speculations  that  remind 
one  of  the  scholastic  philosophy  previous  to  the 
beginning  of  modern  science.  Some  curious  par- 
allels are  found  with  religious  conceptions  of  other 
ancient  and  primitive  peoples,  Natural  philoso- 
phy is  so  intimately  interwoven  with  Chinese  reli- 
gion and  ethics  that  many  peculiarities  of  the 
latter  cannot  be  understood  without  a  knowledge 
of  these  speculations. 


[41] 


MATHEMATICS   AND   SCIENCE 

The  Binary  Stars 

By  ROBERT  GRANT  AITKEN,  Astronomer, 
Lick  Observatory.  New  York :  Doug- 
las C.  McMurtrie.  8vo.,  about  350  pp. 

Dr.  Aitken  writes  authoritatively  on  his  sub- 
ject. It  is  his  object  to  give  a  general  account  of 
our  present  knowledge  of  the  binary  stars,  includ- 
ing such  an  exposition  of  the  best  observing  meth- 
ods and  of  approved  methods  of  orbit  computation 
as  may  make  a  useful  guide  to  those  who  wish  to 
undertake  the  investigations  of  these  systems.  He 
has  presented  conclusions  based  upon  his  own  re- 
searches conducted  during  the  past  twenty  years. 
Terms  are  denned  in  the  brief  introduction.  The 
first  two  chapters  give  an  historical  sketch  of 
binary  star  work.  Then  follow  five  chapters  de- 
voted to  the  observing  methods  and  methods  of 
orbit  computation  for  visual,  spectroscopic,  and 
eclipsing  binaries;  the  chapter  entitled  "The 
Radial  Velocity  of  a  Star, ' '  which  treats  of  observ- 
ing apparatus  and  methods  for  spectroscopic  binary 
stars,  being  written  by  Dr.  J.  H.  Moore.  The  next 
three  chapters  deal  statistically  with  the  known 
orbits  of  binary  stars  and  with  the  distribution  of 
binary  stars.  The  final  chapter  discusses  the 
origin  of  the  binary  system. 


[42] 


Catalogue  of  the  Hemiptera  of  America  North 
of  Mexico,  excepting  the  Aphididae, 
Coccidae  and  Aleurodidae 

By  EDWARD  PAYSON  VAN  DUZEE,  for- 
merly Instructor  in  Entomology.  Uni- 
versity of  California  Press.  Large 
8vo.,  xiv  +  902  pp. 

This  is  a  critical  catalogue  of  the  described 
Hemipterous  insects  of  America  north  of  Mexico, 
giving  full  synonymy,  all  important  references  and 
the  distribution  of  the  species  by  states.  In  this 
work  the  principle  of  priority  has  been  applied  to 
family  and  other  group  names  higher  than  the 
genus,  and  references  for  such  group  names  have 
been  given  with  the  same  completeness  as  has  been 
done  in  the  case  of  genera  and  species.  Here  for 
the  first  time  such  application  of  the  principle  of 
priority  has  been  made  in  a  general  catalogue  and, 
with  the  full  bibliography  given,  will  serve  in  a 
measure  as  an  index  to  the  value  of  the  principle 
when  applied  to  zoological  nomenclature.  Under 
each  name  the  references  are  arranged  strictly  in 
their  chronological  order,  showing  at  once  the 
standing  and  history  of  the  name. 


[43] 


Changes  in  the  Chemical  Composition  of 
Grapes  During  Ripening 

By  FREDERIC  THEODORE  BIOLETTI,  Pro- 
fessor of  Viticulture  and  Enology, 
WILLIAM  VERB  CRUESS,  Assistant  Pro- 
fessor of  Zymology,  and  HORACE 
DENAN  DAVI.  University  of  Califor- 
nia Press.  Large  8vo.,  27  pp. 
From  both  the  practical  and  scientific  stand- 
points, it  is  a  matter  of  importance  to  know  at 
what  periods  in  the  growth  of  grapes  certain  desir- 
able constituents,  such  as  sugar  and  acid  in  the 
fruit,  and  starch  and  sugar  in  the  leaves  reach  a 
maximum.  With  such  information,  it  is  possible 
to  determine,  in  the  case  of  raisin  grapes,  in  which 
a  maximum  of  sugar  content  is  desirable,  just  when 
picking  can  be  done  to  best  advantage.  In  the 
case  of  certain  wine  grapes,  in  which  high  acidity 
may  be  the  desirable  factor,  a  knowledge  of  the 
period  of  maximum  acidity  gives  a  method  of  con- 
trol with  regard  to  the  proper  time  of  picking. 
This  paper  deals  with  investigations  which  attempt 
to  determine  these  factors  and  also  discusses  simi- 
lar phases  of  the  question  with  respect  to  the  com- 
position of  the  leaves  of  the  grape  vine.  The  in- 
vestigations also  show  the  high  variability  which 
characterizes  the  chemical  composition  of  leaves 
and  fruit  on  vines,  hence  showing  the  necessary 
precautions  which  are  to  be  taken  in  such  work. 
They  also  consider  many  other  factors  which  affect 
the  composition  of  the  grape  in  other  respects  than 
those  bearing  on  the  sugar  and  acid  content. 

[44] 


Correlation  of  the  Tertiary  Formation  and 
Faunas  of  the  Great  Basin 

By  JOHN  CAMPBELL  MEERIAM,  Professor 
of  Palaeontology  and  Historical  Geol- 
ogy. University  of  California  Press. 
Large  8vo.,  about  300  pp. ;  40  illustra- 
tions. 

The  group  of  geological  formations  known  as 
the  Tertiary  represents  the  next  to  the  latest  of 
four  divisions  into  which  Earth  history  was  at  one 
time  divided.  In  the  Great  Basin  province  of 
North  America  the  rocks  of  the  Tertiary  division 
and  the  fossil  remains  which  they  contain  have 
played  an  important  role  in  interpreting  the  geo- 
logical history  of  the  North  American  continent 
and  of  the  life  of  the  successive  periods.  Although 
of  much  importance  to  the  history  of  North  Amer- 
ica these  formations  have  been  among  the  most  im- 
perfectly known  on  the  continent.  The  very  few 
areas  of  these  rocks  in  any  sense  adequately  de- 
scribed are  widely  separated  geographically  and 
correlation  of  the  portions  of  history  represented 
has  been  based  generally  on  meagre  and  unsatis- 
factory evidence.  In  the  course  of  the  past  nine- 
teen years  the  Department  of  Palaeontology  of  the 
University  of  California,  under  Professor  Mer- 
riam's  guidance,  has  been  almost  continuously  en- 
gaged in  work  on  the  Great  Basin  Tertiary.  The 
investigations  have  included  the  larger  part  of 
the  area,  and  the  study  of  nearly  all  of  the  prin- 
cipal occurrences  of  deposit  in  these  periods.  The 

[45] 


results  of  these  studies  have  been  included  in  more 
than  thirty-eight  articles  appearing  in  the  Univer- 
sity of  California  publications,  and  in  a  consider- 
able number  of  papers  elsewhere,  issued  through 
other  mediums.  The  continued  increase  in  our 
knowledge  of  the  succession  of  Tertiary  formations 
in  the  Great  Basin  has  made  necessary  the  constant 
revision  of  views  relating  to  the  geographical  his- 
tory of  this  province,  and  it  will  be  difficult  for 
many  years  to  furnish  anything  like  a  complete 
review  of  the  whole  subject.  In  view  of  the  com- 
plication of  the  subject  and  the  difficulty  of  making 
progress  without  having  a  statement  of  the  present 
advance  of  investigation,  it  has  been  considered  de- 
sirable to  bring  together  now  the  materials  most 
needed  as  the  basis  for  an  understanding  of  the 
Tertiary  problem  of  the  Great  Basin. 

Descriptions  of  762  Nebulae  and  Clusters 
Photographed  with  the  Crossley  Re- 
flector 

By  HEBER  DOUST  CURTIS,  Astronomer, 
Lick  Observatory.  University  of  Cali- 
fornia Press.  Quarto,  about  40  pp. 
with  8  illustrations. 

This  paper  contains  brief  descriptions  of  all 
nebulae  and  clusters  photographed  with  the  Cross- 
ley  Reflector  from  1898,  when  systematic  work  was 
commenced  with  this  instrument  at  Mount  Hamil- 
ton, until  February  1,  1918.  The  objects  described 
may  be  tabulated  as  follows:  513  spiral  nebulae, 
56  diffuse  nebulosities,  36  globular  clusters,  24  spare 
[46] 


clusters,  78  planetary  nebulae,  8  "dark"  nebulae, 
47  unclassified,  non-existent,  etc.  A  new  determi- 
nation is  made  of  the  probable  total  number  of  the 
spiral  nebulae.  In  all,  6211  spiral  nebulae,  most  of 
them  very  small,  are  recorded  on  the  439  regions 
of  the  programme  available  for  such  counts.  These 
results  indicate  722,000  as  the  number  of  spiral 
nebulae  in  the  entire  sky  accessible  with  large  mod- 
ern reflecting  telescopes. 

The  Dinoflagellata  of  the  San  Diego  Region— 
The  Gymnodinioidae 

By  CHARLES  ATWOOD  KOFOID,  Professor 
of  Zoology,  and  OLIVE  SWEZY,  Zoolo- 
gist, Scripps  Institution  for  Biologi- 
cal Research.    University  of  Califor- 
nia Press.    Quarto,  about  250  pp.,  12 
plates  in  color,  16  text  figures. 
This  monograph  deals  with  a  group  of  little 
known  littoral  and  pelagic  organisms,  found  in  the 
Pacific  Ocean  off  the  coast  of  California  in  the 
vicinity  of  La  Jolla  and  San  Diego.    These  minute 
organisms  are  remarkable   for  their  beauty   and 
delicacy  of  coloring,  and  are  among  the  causes  of 
the   nightly   display    of    phosphorescence    in   the 
breakers  along  the  southern  shores.    They  also  form 
an  important  part  of  the  food  supply  of  the  great 
oceanic  meadows.    To  the  six  genera  of  this  family 
which  have  been  found  most  abundantly,  namely 
Amphidinium,  Gumnodinium,  Gyrodinium,  Coch- 
lodinium,    Pouchetia,    and   Erythropsis,    six    new 
genera  and  115  new  species  have  been  added,  more 

[47] 


than  doubling  the  previous  records,  which  were 
chiefly  those  of  Old  World  species,  the  Pacific 
Ocean  forming  an  entirely  new  field  for  investiga- 
tion. These  have  been  treated  systematically,  with 
a  complete  summary  of  previous  work  done  on  the 
group.  The  study  has  brought  to  light  some  inter- 
esting lines  of  evolutionary  development  in  these 
small  Protozoa,  as  well  as  emphasizing  the  import- 
ance of  temperature  relations,  both  from  a  morpho- 
logical standpoint  and  in  regard  to  speciation 
within  the  group.  It  has  also  shown  that  many  of 
these  so-called  simplest  forms  of  life  possess  a  com- 
plexity of  organization  which  far  surpasses  that  of 
many  of  the  lower  Metazoa. 

Electrical  Phenomena  in  Parallel  Conductors 

By  FREDERICK  EUGENE  PERNOT,  Assistant 
Professor  of  Electrical  Engineering. 
8vo.,  about  200  pp. 

It  is  of  fundamental  importance  to  be  able  to  pre- 
determine with  as  much  numerical  accuracy  as  pos- 
sible, the  phenomena  which  may  take  place  in  elec- 
trical systems.  It  is  of  importance,  firstly,  because 
such  predetermination,  when  possible,  can  be  made 
at  much  less  expense  and  trouble  than  is  required 
to  obtain  the  same  information  experimentally; 
and  secondly,  because  information  so  obtained 
opens  a  way  to  new  developments  in  the  application 
of  scientific  knowledge.  With  this  idea  in  mind  the 
author  of  Electrical  Phenomena,  in  Parallel  Con- 
ductors has  endeavored  to  discuss  the  phenomena 
arising  in  connection  with  the  transmission  of  elec- 

[48] 


trical  power  over  metallic  circuits.  Using  funda- 
mental principles,  rigorous  equations  have  been 
developed,  giving  the  relations  between  voltage, 
current,  and  constants  of  the  circuits.  Extensive 
use  has  been  made  of  the  complex  quantity  nota- 
tion in  all  developments  having  to  do  with  alter- 
nating currents.  Whenever  possible,  approximate 
equations  as  well  as  their  limitations  and  the  errors 
involved  in  their  use  have  been  considered.  Illus- 
trative numerical  examples  and  curves,  including 
several  dealing  with  long  transmission  lines,  have 
been  included.  Finally,  the  author  has  endeavored 
to  put  all  equations  into  such  form  that  they  may 
be  intelligible  and  useful  to  the  general  engineer. 

The  Felidae  of  Rancho  La  Brea 

By  JOHN  CAMPBELL  MERRIAM,  Professor 
of  Palaeontology  and  Historical  Geol- 
ogy. University  of  California  Press. 
Quarto,  about  150  pp.  100  plates,  200 
text  figures. 

This  memoir  deals  with  the  extraordinary 
accumulation  of  remains  of  extinct  animals  found 
in  the  asphalt  beds  of  Rancho  La  Brea  near  Los 
Angeles.  It  is  probable  that  the  most  striking 
illustration  of  the  exceptional  nature  of  this  de- 
posit is  found  in  the  great  representation  of  the 
Felidae  or  cats.  It  is  certain  that  in  examining  the 
many  geological  formations  of  the  earth  up  to  the 
present  time  no  other  occurrence  has  been  known 
to  contain  such  a  marvelous  abundance  of  per- 
fectly preserved  remains  representing  the  cat  group 
as  that  discovered  at  Eancho  La  Brea.  With  the 
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exception  of  the  wolves,  the  cats  are  of  all  groups 
of  animals  the  most  abundantly  represented  at 
Rancho  La  Brea,  the  known  specimens  furnishing 
probably  close  to  two  thousand  individuals  avail- 
able for  study.  There  are  moreover  represented 
within  this  fauna  the  highest  and  most  efficient 
stages  in  the  evolution  of  the  two  great  divisions 
of  the  cat  group;  one  being  represented  by  the 
sabre-tooth,  the  acme  of  cat  specialization  on  this 
line  of  evolution,  the  other  represented  by  the  mag- 
nificent lion,  Felis  atrox,  the  giant  representative 
of  the  true  cat  tribe,  and  the  largest  known  member 
of  the  cat  group.  The  monograph  on  the  Felidae 
covers  a  full  study  of  all  members  of  the  cat  group 
known  in  this  fauna  at  Rancho  La  Brea,  with  de- 
scription of  their  structure,  their  classification,  and 
the  significance  of  the  remains  in  terms  of  biological 
and  geological  history. 

The  Fermentation  Organisms  of  Californian 
Grapes 

By  WILLIAM  VERE  CRUESS,  Assistant 
Professor  of  Zymology.  University 
of  California  Press.  Large  8vo.,  about 
50pp. 

This  paper  was  prepared  as  a  result  of  investi- 
gations made  by  the  author  on  the  micro-organ- 
isms occurring  on  Californian  grapes  and  more 
particularly  of  those  of  most  importance  in  the 
fermentation  of  grapes.  The  investigation  was 
qualitative  and  quantitative,  covering  the  effect  on 
type  and  number  of  micro-organisms  of  (a)  local- 

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ity,  (6)  degree  of  ripeness,  and  (c)  shipment  from 
vineyard  to  winery.  It  included  studies  of  (d) 
the  micro-organisms  normally  found  on  grapes  as 
received  at  the  winery,  (e)  their  control  during 
fermentation,  and  (/)  their  morphological  and  his- 
tological  characteristics.  The  data  are  of  value  to 
enologists  and  winemakers  engaged  in  the  fer- 
mentation of  grapes  for  wine  or  other  fermented 
products  and  will  be  of  interest  to  the  systematic 
microbiologist  engaged  in  the  classification  of  micro- 
organisms from  fruits. 

Fundamental  Equations  of  Dynamics 

By  FREDERICK  SLATE,  Professor  of  Phys- 
ics. University  of  California  Press. 
8vo.,  220  pp.  +  preface  and  index. 
The  systematic  and  inclusive  discussion  of 
Dynamics  has  been  repeated  so  often  that  it  is  in 
many  ways  reduced  to  standard  expression.  This 
applies  both  to  the  abstracter  aspects  and  to  those 
which  are  more  practical.  But  the  science  is  re- 
adjusting somewhat  rapidly  various  intimate  con- 
nections with  physical  thought,  and  official  adop- 
tion is  being  secured  for  vectorial  expression  of 
relations.  Because  this  situation  exists,  the  writing 
of  a  self-contained  treatment  of  dynamics  has  been 
relinquished  here,  and  attention  has  been  concen- 
trated upon  a  narrower  group  of  topics,  where  op- 
portunities for  modification  are  now  plainly  in  evi- 
dence. Although  some  still  believe  that  in  bulk 
the  recorded  conquests  of  dynamics  are  permanent, 
and  that  they  may  still  be  approached  best  through 

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the  work  of  the  classic  masters  in  this  field,  Pro- 
fessor Slate's  work  demonstrates  how  our  further 
reading  of  arguments  and  results  may  need  to  be 
cleared  or  rectified  in  its  details.  For  example,  a 
consistent  use  of  ' '  Vector-angle ' '  may  well  supple- 
ment hereafter  the  notions  bequeathed  to  us  by 
Euler.  The  idea  of  "Shift"  is  shown  to  throw  de- 
sirable illumination  upon  the  practice  in  using 
coordinate-systems. 

The  Game  Birds  of  California 

By  JOSEPH  GRINNELL,  Director,  Califor- 
nia Museum  of  Vertebrate  Zoology; 
HAROLD  CHILD  BRYANT,  Economic 
Ornithologist,  and  HARRY  SCHEL- 
WALDT  SWARTH,  Curator  of  Birds,  of 
the  Staff  of  the  California  Museum 
of  Vertebrate  Zoology.  University  of 
California  Press.  Large  8vo.,  about 
1000  pp.  with  16  plates  in  color  and 
many  drawings. 

This  work  is  a  description  of  the  game  birds  of 
the  state  (the  ducks,  geese,  swans,  ibises,  cranes, 
rails,  shore-birds,  grouse,  quail,  and  pigeons),  and 
is  prepared  to  meet  the  requirements  of  a  varied 
public.  It  aims  to  give  the  hunter  general  informa- 
tion concerning  the  local  game  birds,  to  supply  the 
naturalist  with  data  regarding  life  histories,  to  give 
the  legislator  helpful  facts  relevant  to  the  prepara- 
tion of  game  laws,  and  to  give  the  conservationist 
information  contributory  to  his  efforts  to  perpet- 
uate bird  life.  The  original  matter  is  derived  from 
manuscript  notes  and  specimens  in  the  California 

[52] 


Museum  of  Vertebrate  Zoology,  while  an  exhaustive 
review  and  compilation  of  literature  relating  to 
California  game  birds  was  also  made.  The  material 
at  hand  has  thus  been  organized  in  such  form  as  to 
provide  a  convenient  summary  of  our  knowledge  of 
the  subject  to  date.  Under  each  species  there  is  tech- 
nically descriptive  matter  pertaining  to  plumages, 
eggs,  nesting,  distribution,  etc.,  followed  by  a  less 
formal  treatment  giving  fuller  information  along 
the  same  lines.  Sixteen  colored  plates,  nine  of  them 
made  especially  for  this  book,  figure  some  of  the 
more  notable  birds,  while  line  drawings  illustrate 
special  characters  of  nearly  every  species.  In  ad- 
dition to  the  specific  treatment  by  species  there  are 
chapters  devoted  to  subjects  relating  to  game  birds 
in  general,  such  as  "  Decrease  of  game  and  its 
causes, "  "Natural  enemies  of  game  birds, "  "The 
gun  club  in  California,"  "History  of  attempts  to 
introduce  non-native  game  birds  into  California," 
"The  propagation  of  game  birds,"  and  "Legisla- 
tion relating  to  game  birds  in  California." 

Logarithms  of  Hyperbolic  Functions  to 
Twelve  Significant  Figures 

By  FREDERICK  EUGENE  PERNOT,  Assist- 
ant Professor  of  Electrical  Engineer- 
ing, and  BALDWIN  HUNGER  WOODS, 
Assistant  Professor  of  Theoretical 
Mechanics.  University  of  California 
Press.  Large  8vo.,  171  pp. 
In  previously  published  tables  of  the  hyperbolic 

functions,  where  an  accuracy  of  more  than  five 

[53] 


places  is  obtained,  a  gap  exists  in  the  tabulation  of 
the  functions  for  the  values  of  the  argument  be- 
tween zero  and  two.  Owing  to  the  rapid  variation 
of  the  derivatives  of  the  functions  in  this  interval 
the  computations  for  a  twelve-place  table  are  some- 
what tedious  and  complicated.  It  is  precisely  in 
this  part  of  the  table,  however,  that  computations 
required  by  the  application  of  hyperbolic  functions 
to  engineering  problems  now  fall.  The  authors 
undertook  the  compilation  of  these  tables  with  the 
idea  of  supplying  a  base  table  which  would  fill  the 
existing  gap  and  furnish  a  source  for  future  tables 
for  engineering  computations. 

The  Marine  Algae  of  the  Pacific  Coast  of 
North  America 

By  WILLIAM  ALBERT  SETCHELL,  Profes- 
sor of  Botany,  and  NATHANIEL  LYON 
GARDNER,  Assistant  Professor  of  Bot- 
any.   University  of  California  Press. 
Large  8vo.,  850  pp.,  fully  illustrated. 
This  monograph  aims  to  present  for  the  first 
time  an  account  of  all  the  species  of  Marine  Algae 
known  to  occur  on  the  Pacific  coast  of  North  Amer- 
ica.   Descriptions  are  given  of  all  the  species,  to- 
gether with  the  most  important  references  to  the 
literature,  statements  as  to  habitat  and  distribution 
and  critical  notes  in  connection  with  each.     There 
are  keys  to  the  various  groups  and  genera,  and  at 
times  to  the  species  in  the  larger  genera.    The  work 
is  fully  illustrated,  both  in  the  form  of  line  engrav- 

[54] 


ings  and  reproductions  of  photographs.  The  work 
will  include  the  marine  species  of  the  groups  of  the 
Myxophyceae  or  Blue-Green  Algae,  the  Chloro- 
phyceae  or  Grass-Green  Algae,  the  Phaeophyceae 
or  Brown  Algae,  and  the  Rhodophyceae  or  Red 
Algae.  There  are  approximately  850  species  of  the 
combined  groups  known  from  the  Pacific  coast  at 
the  present  time,  but  there  have  not  been  available 
previously  satisfactory  accounts  or  even  lists  of  the 
known  species. 


Mutation  in  Matthiola 

By  HOWARD  BRETT  FROST,,  Instructor  in 
Plant  Breeding  in  the  Citrus  Experi- 
ment Station  and  Graduate  School 
of  Tropical  Agriculture.  University 
of  California  Press.  Large  8vo.,  80 
pp.,  13  plates. 

Dr.  Frost  describes  the  occurrence,  character- 
istics, and  heredity  of  certain  aberrant  types  of 
Matthiola  annua  Sweet,  which  appear  to  arise  by 
mutation.  These  types  occur  in  small  numbers 
among  the  progency  of  selfed  plants  of  the  com- 
mercial variety  ' '  Snowflake ' '  •  they  differ  from  the 
parent  variety  in  various  characteristics,  including 
size,  vigor  of  growth,  time  of  flowering,  number  of 
nodes,  form  of  leaves,  resistance  to  certain  adverse 
conditions,  fertility,  etc.  Each  of  these  types 
usually  appears  to  differ  from  the  parent  variety 
in  one  dominant  genetic  factor,  which  in  all  cases 
but  one  seems  to  be  lethal  when  homozygous  and 

[55] 


usually  semilethal  when  hetrozygous.  The  case  has 
special  interest  because  these  types  resemble  in 
genetic  behavior  some  of  the  supposedly  mutant 
types  of  Oenothera  (which  are  considered  by  some 
geneticists  to  be  "non-Mendelian"),  although  the 
typical  Mendelian  mechanism  of  heredity  is  known 
to  be  present  in  the  species. 

Ocean  Temperatures.    Their  Relation  to  Solar 
Radiation  and  Oceanic  Circulation 

By  GEORGE  FRANCIS  McEwEN,  Hydro- 
grapher,  Scripps  Institution  for  Bio- 
logical Research.  University  of  Cali- 
fornia Press.  Large  8vo.,  about 
100  pp. 

Dr.  McEwen's  study  is  a  contribution  toward 
the  quantitative  solution  of  physical  problems  based 
on  observations  of  phenomena  as  they  occur  under 
the  complex  conditions  of  nature.  Four  closely  re- 
lated problems  relative  to  ocean  temperatures  are 
formulated  and  solved  with  the  aid  of  well-known 
methods  in  mathematical  physics.  The  first  prob- 
lem deals  with  the  rate  of  gain  and  loss  of  heat  in 
an  element  of  volume  of  sea-water  at  or  near  the 
surface,  on  the  assumption  that  the  average  rate 
of  flow  is  zero.  The  second  problem  deals  with 
the  effect  of  a  horizontal  flow  on  surface  tempera- 
tures. In  the  third  problem  the  relation  of  tempera- 
ture to  time,  depth,  and  vertical  velocity  of  the 
water  in  the  depth  interval  from  40  to  700  meters 
is  investigated  with  the  aid  of  a  theory  of  heat 

[56] 


conductivity  in  a  moving  medium.  Finally,  an 
estimate  of  the  reduction  of  surface  temperatures 
due  to  upwelling  is  made.  Numerical  applications 
mainly  to  observations  made  in  the  Pacific  Ocean 
off  the  west  coast  of  North  America  follow  the  solu- 
tions of  the  problems,  and  special  attention  is  given 
to  the  comparison  of  theory  with  observations. 

Perturbations  and  Tables  of  the  Minor  Planets 
Discovered  by  J  ames  C.  Wat  son,  Part  1 1 

By  ARMIN  OTTO  LEUSCHNER,  Professor 

of  Astronomy.  Quarto,  150  pp. 
By  the  will  of  James  C.  "Watson  the  National 
Academy  of  Sciences  of  the  United  States  of 
America  was  entrusted  with  the  mathematical  in- 
vestigation of  the  motion  of  the  twenty-three  minor 
planets  which  he  had  discovered.  In  1901,  after 
various  investigators  had  carried  on  the  work  for 
more  than  fifteen  years  without  arriving  at  satis- 
factory results  of  the  perturbations,  the  Trustees 
of  the  Watson  Fund  of  the  Academy  requested 
Professor  Leuschner  to  continue  the  researches  in 
the  hope  that  they  might  be  carried  to  a  successful 
conclusion.  The  work  was  carried  on  at  the  Stu- 
dents' Observatory  with  the  aid  of  assistants  and 
graduate  students.  In  1910  the  completed  results 
relating  to  twelve  planets  were  published  in  the 
Memoirs  of  the  National  Academy,  Volume  X,  as 
Part  I  of  the  whole  investigation.  The  results  re- 
lating to  the  remaining  eleven  planets  are  com- 
prised in  the  present  work.  These  remaining  eleven 

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cases  required  special  methods  of  solution.  Several 
planets  belong  to  the  group  of  which  the  mean 
motion  is  nearly  twice  that  of  the  planet  Jupiter. 
These  cases  have  been  treated  by  methods  proposed 
by  Bohlin  and  von  Zeipel.  A  revision  of  these 
methods  and  of  the  general  tables  based  on  them 
with  reference  to  this  group  is  included  in  the  pub- 
lication. The  author  has  received  assistance  during 
the  later  stages  of  the  investigation  from  Miss 
Estelle  A.  Glancy  and  Miss  Sophia  H.  Levy. 

The  Physical  Chemistry  of  the  Proteins 

By  THORBTJRN  BRAILSFORD  KOBERTSON, 
Professor  of  Biochemistry  and  Phar- 
macology. Longmans,  Green  &  Co. 
8vo.,  483  pp. 

The  proteins  have,  ever  since  the  publication  of 
the  classic  researches  of  Graham,  been  generally 
recognized  as  typical  examples  of  that  class  of  sub- 
stances which  Graham  designated  "Colloids." 
This  work,  therefore,  although  primarily  concerned 
with  the  physical  chemistry  of  a  limited  section  of 
the  class,  may  also,  in  some  measure,  be  regarded 
as  contributing  to  an  analysis  of  the  properties  and 
behavior  of  colloids  in  general,  in  so  far  as  these 
permit  of  illustration  by  the  properties  and  be- 
havior of  the  various  members  of  the  protein  group. 
To  the  biologist  and  to  the  student  of  medicine  the 
proteins  are  of  exceptional  interest,  since  they  are 
the  constituents  of  protoplasm  which,  more  evi- 
dently than  any  others,  contribute  to  the  unique 
complex  of  properties  which  distinguish  the  ' '  phys- 

[58] 


ical  basis  of  life"  from  inanimate  matter.  To  the 
physical  chemist  the  proteins  are  also  of  excep- 
tional interest,  since  the  enormous  size  of  their 
molecules  exaggerates  many  properties  which  are 
displayed  by  the  smaller  molecules  of  the  simpler 
substances  only  to  an  almost  imperceptible  degree. 
From  the  point  of  view  of  the  industrial  chemist 
the  proteins  are  rapidly  attaining  very  great  im- 
portance, the  diversity  of  physical  characteristics 
which  are  displayed  by  the  various  members  of  the 
protein  group  ensuring  their  ultimate  utility  in  a 
like  variety  of  industrial  applications.  The  aim 
of  the  author  has  been  to  present  a  monograph 
which  should  constitute  a  comprehensive  work  of 
reference  and  at  the  same  time  a  contribution  to 
the  general  theory  of  the  subject. 

The  Planetary  Nebulae 

By  HEBER  DOUST  CURTIS,  Astronomer, 
Lick    Observatory.      University    of 
California  Press.     Quarto,  about  40 
pp.  with  84  illustrations. 
This  paper  contains  photographs,  drawings,  and 
brief  descriptions  of  seventy-eight  planetary  nebu- 
lae (all  known  objects  of  this  class  north  of  34° 
south   declination).     A   discussion   of   the   forms 
observed  shows  that  while  the  minor  structural 
details   of  the  planetary  nebulae   are   frequently 
exceedingly  complex,    a   large   proportion   of   the 
planetaries  approximate  more  or  less  closely  to  an 
ellipsoidal  shell,  or  a  wide  ring  of  gaseous  matter, 
about  a  central  star. 

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The  Radial  Velocity  of  the  Greater  Magellanic 
Cloud 

By  RALPH  ELMER  WILSON,  Acting  As- 
tronomer in  Charge  of  the  D.  O. 
Mills  Expedition.  University  of  Cal- 
ifornia Press.  Quarto,  5  pp. 
The  Greater  and  Lesser  Magellanic  Clouds,  far 
to  one  side  of  the  Milky  Way,  in  appearance  re- 
sembling detached  and  isolated  areas  of  the  Milky 
Way,  contain  respectively  nineteen  and  one  nebulae 
known  to  have  bright  lines  in  their  spectra.  The 
radial  velocity  of  the  one  nebula  in  the  Lesser 
Cloud  has  been  measured  at  the  D.  0.  Mills  Ob- 
servatory and  found  to  be  168  kilometers  per  sec- 
ond recession.  The  radial  velocities  of  seventeen 
of  the  bright-line  nebulae  in  the  Greater  Cloud 
have  been  observed  at  the  D.  0.  Mills  Observatory, 
with  individual  results  lying  between  the  limits  of 
250  and  320  kilometers  per  second,  recession.  The 
other  two  nebulae  are  too  faint  for  successful  ob- 
servation by  present  means.  These  nebulae  are 
undoubtedly  within  the  structure  of  the  Greater 
Cloud  and  the  observed  results  are  in  support  of 
the  hypothesis  that  the  radial  velocity  of  the  Cloud 
structure  as  a  whole  is  in  the  neighborhood  of  280 
kilometers  per  second,  recession.  If  this  is  true, 
the  Greater  Cloud,  and  no  doubt  the  Lesser  Cloud, 
are  separate  stellar  systems  independent  of  our 
Milky  Way  system. 


[60] 


The  Spectrographic  Velocities  of  the  Brighter 
Stars,  observed  at  the  Lick  Observatory 
and  the  D.  O.  Mills  Observatory 

By  WILLIAM  WALLACE  CAMPBELL,  Di- 
rector, Lick  Observatory.  Univer- 
sity of  California  Press.  Quarto, 
400  pp. 

Professor  Campbell  describes  the  instruments 
and  methods  employed  at  Mount  Hamilton  and  at 
Santiago,  Chile,  in  the  accurate  determination  of 
the  motions  of  approach  and  recession  of  about 
two  thousand  of  the  brighter  stars  distributed 
over  the  entire  sky.  The  results  for  the  individual 
observations  of  each  star  are  given  and  a  list  of 
the  mean  results  obtained  for  the  individual  stars, 
forming  a  catalogue  of  the  radial  velocities  of  these 
stars.  Appropriate  data  is  furnished  for  the  sev- 
eral hundred  stars  in  the  list  whose  radial  veloci- 
ties vary  under  the  gravitational  influences  of  com- 
panion stars.  A  determination  of  the  motion  of 
the  solar  system  through  the  great  stellar  system 
is  made  by  means  of  the  observational  data  de- 
scribed, and  other  statistical  studies  relating  to 
apparent  motions  of  stars  of  the  different  spectral 
classes  are  included. 


[61] 


The  Spectrographic  Velocities  of  the  Bright- 
Line  Nebulae 

By  WILLIAM  WALLACE  CAMPBELL,  Di- 
rector, Lick  Observatory,  and  JOSEPH 
H.    MOORE,    Assistant    Astronomer. 
Lick    Observatory.      University    of 
California  Press.    Quarto,  75  pp. 
The    radial    velocities    of    all    nebulae    whose 
spectra  are  known  to  contain  bright-lines  and  are 
bright  enough  for  observation  have  been  measured 
at  the  Lick  Observatory  and  at  the  D.  0.  Mills 
Observatory;   77   at   Mount  Hamilton   and  48   at 
Santiago,  Chile,  125  in  all.     The  radial  velocities 
for  many  parts  of  the  great  nebula  in  Orion  have 
also  been  determined.     Statistical  studies  of  the 
observed  velocities  establish  the  fact  that  the  veloci- 
ties of  bright-line  nebulae  are  several-fold  as  great 
as  the  average  velocities  of  the  stars.     At  Mount 
Hamilton  forty-five  of  those   bright-line   nebulae 
known  as  "  planetaries "  have  been  observed  spec- 
trographically    for    rotation    or    internal    motion 
effects.     For  twenty-five  planetaries  the  principal 
results  are  most  satisfactorily  interpreted  as  rota- 
tions;  for  four   objects   rotations   are   suspected; 
sixteen  objects  give  no  certain  evidences  of  rota- 
tional effects  with  the  degree  of  dispersion  em- 
ployed. 


[62] 


A  Study  of  Absorption  Effects  in  the  Spiral 
Nebulae 

By  HEBER  DOUST  CURTIS,  Astronomer; 
Lick  Observatory.  University  of 
California  Press.  Quarto,  about  30 
pp.,  with  illustrations  of  78  spirals. 
It  has  long  been  known  that  certain  spiral 
nebulae  seen  edgewise  show  dark  lanes  along  their 
major  axis.  Dr.  Curtis  has  examined  the  extensive 
collection  of  photographs  of  spiral  nebulae  made 
with  the  Crossley  Reflector  and  shows  that  this 
phenomenon  is  much  more  common  than  had  been 
hitherto  supposed.  Illustrations  are  published  of 
seventy-eight  spirals  which  show  this  effect.  A 
discussion  of  the  forms  observed  indicates  as  the 
most  probable  cause  the  occulting  effect  due  to 
bands  or  whorls  of  non-luminous  matter  in  the 
peripheral  regions  of  these  spirals.  The  evidence 
of  occulting  matter  in  our  own  galaxy  are  discussed 
in  this  connection,  and  it  is  suggested  that  the  fact 
that  very  few  spiral  nebulae  are  found  in  or  near 
to  the  plane  of  the  Milky  Way  may  be  due  to  the 
presence  of  a  similar  zone  of  occulting  matter  in 
the  peripheral  regions  of  our  own  galaxy. 

Synopsis  of  the  Aphididae  of  California 

By  ALBERT  FREE   SWAIN,,  Assistant  in 
Entomology.    University  of  Califor- 
nia Press.    Large  8vo.,  about  200  pp. 
This  paper  includes  results  of  the  study  of 
Aphididae  known  to  occur  in  California,  listing  all 

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known  species,  with  a  bibliography,  collection  rec- 
ords, distribution,  and  notes  of  the  biology  of  each. 
It  is  also  a  study  of  the  synonomy  of  the  species 
and  genera,  and  contains  the  author's  conclusions 
regarding  the  same.  There  are  tables  for  the  de- 
termination of  the  groups,  genera,  and  species,  to- 
gether with  such  illustrations  (317  in  number,  in 
17  full-page  plates)  as  are  necessary  for  the  proper 
use  of  the  tables.  A  host  plant  index  of  all  species 
is  included.  The  object  is  to  bring  together  a  com- 
plete record  to  date  of  all  species  known  to  occur 
in  the  state,  and  to  place  the  same  in  such  a  form 
that  the  identification  of  species  can  be  made  more 
or  less  readily  by  entomologists  who  are  not  special- 
ists in  this  group. 

The  Theory  of  the  Relativity  of  Motion 

By  EICHAKD  CHACE  TOLMAN,  Professor 
of  Chemistry,  University  of  Illinois. 
University  of  California  Press.  Large 
8vo.,  225  pp. 

This  book  presents  an  introduction  to  the 
Theory  of  the  Relativity  of  Motion,  a  theory  which 
in  the  decade  since  the  publication  of  Einstein's 
first  paper  has  become  a  necessary  part  of  the 
theoretical  equipment  of  every  physicist.  The 
method  of  treatment  adopted  is  to  a  considerable 
extent  original  and  part  of  the  material  itself  ap- 
pears here  for  the  first  time.  Professor  Tolman 
aims  not  only  to  introduce  the  study  of  the  rela- 
tivity theory  to  those  previously  unfamiliar  with 
the  subject  but  also  to  provide  the  necessary 

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methodological  equipment  for  those  who  wish  to 
pursue  the  theory  in  its  more  complicated  applica- 
tions. Even  if  we  regard  the  Einstein  theory  of 
relativity  merely  as  a  convenient  tool  for  the  pre- 
diction of  electro-magnetic  and  optical  phenomena, 
its  importance  to  the  physicist  is  very  great,  not 
only  because  its  introduction  greatly  simplifies  the 
deduction  of  many  theorems  which  were  already 
familiar  to  the  older  theories  based  on  a  stationary 
ether,  but  also  because  it  leads  simply  and  directly 
to  correct  conclusions  in  the  case  of  such  experi- 
ments as  those  of  Michelson  and  Morley,  Trouton 
and  Noble,  and  Kaufman  and  Bucherer,  which  can 
be  made  to  agree  with  the  idea  of  a  stationary  ether 
only  by  the  introduction  of  complicated  and  ad  hoc 
assumptions.  Regarded  from  a  more  philosophical 
point  of  view,  an  acceptance  of  the  Einstein  theory 
of  relativity  would  appear  clearly  to  show  the  ad- 
visability of  completely  remodeling  some  of  our 
most  fundamental  ideas.  In  particular  some  schol- 
ars point  out  that  we  shall  now  do  well  to  change 
our  concepts  of  space  and  time  in  such  a  way  as  to 
give  up  the  old  idea  of  their  complete  independence, 
a  notion  which  we  have  received  as  the  inheritance 
of  a  long  ancestral  experience  with  bodies  moving 
with  slow  velocities,  but  which  no  longer  proves 
pragmatic  when  we  deal  with  velocities  approach- 
ing that  of  light. 


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Typhoid  Fever,  Considered  as  a  Problem  of 
Scientific  Medicine 

By  FREDERICK  PARKER  GAY,  Professor  of 
Pathology.  The  Macmillan  Co.,  New 
York.  8vo.,  286  pp. 

During  the  past  five  years  Professor  Gay  and 
collaborators  have  published  in  various  journals  a 
series  of  articles  dealing  with  typhoid  fever.  These 
have  been  concerned  with  the  treatment  of  typhoid 
fever  with  sensitized  vaccines,  the  production  of 
the  carrier  state  in  laboratory  animals,  prophylactic 
immunization  against  typhoid  fever,  skin  reactions 
in  typhoid  fever  and  the  preparation  and  the  use 
of  typhoidin  for  this  purpose.  The  studies  have 
not  unnaturally  led  to  the  preparation  of  the  above 
volume,  the  intention  and  scope  of  which  are  sum- 
marized in  the  following  excerpt  from  the  preface : 
"It  aims  to  treat  historically  the  development  and 
present  status  of  our  knowledge  concerning  this 
important  malady  as  viewed  from  the  standpoint 
of  its  mechanism.  It  is  not  primarily  designed  to 
aid  directly  in  the  clinic  or  the  laboratory,  but 
should  serve  to  point  out  the  relations  of  one  to  the 
other,  to  indicate  the  dependence  of  practice  on 
theory,  and  the  happy  applicability  to  human  need 
of  investigation  that  may  have  seemed  to  aim 
merely  at  the  gratification  of  intellectual  curi- 
osity. " 


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The  Wave-Lengths  of  the  Nebular  Lines  and 
General  Observations  of  the  Nebular 
Spectra 

By  WILLIAM  HAMMOND  WRIGHT,  As- 
tronomer, Lick  Observatory.  Uni- 
versity of  California  Press.  Quarto, 
100  pp.;  about  35  half -tone  illustra- 
tions. 

These  investigations  had  their  inception  in  an 
attempt  to  improve  our  knowledge  of  the  wave- 
lengths of  the  nebular  lines.  In  the  course  of  Dr. 
"Wright's  work  numerous  new  lines  were  recorded 
and  a  relation  developed  between  the  planetary 
nebulae  and  the  Wolf-Rayet,  or  Class  0  stars.  At 
this  juncture  the  work  broadened  into  a  more 
general  study  of  nebulae  spectra  in  the  hope 
that  more  light  might  be  shed  upon  the  relation 
between  the  nebulae  and  the  stars.  In  particular 
a  detailed  determination  was  undertaken  of  the 
distribution  in  the  nebulae  of  the  materials  of 
which  they  are  composed,  and  a  number  of  curious 
phenomena  were  discovered  which  have  suggested 
some  tentative  generalizations  concerning  the  dis- 
tribution of  material  within  the  nebulae,  and  the 
nature  of  any  progressive  changes  which  may  be 
taking  place  within  these  bodies.  The  nuclei,  or 
centers  of  condensation  within  the  nebula,  are  indi- 
cated as  bodies  of  very  high  temperature,  and  the 
chief  significance  of  the  observations  probably  lies 
in  the  strong  confirmation  they  afford  of  a  close 

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relationship  between  the  nebulae  and  the  Class  0 
stars.  The  establishment  of  such  a  relation  has  a 
bearing  on  our  views  of  stellar  evolution.  A  num- 
ber of  other  facts  of  possible  interest  in  the  study 
of  astrophysics  have  been  developed. 


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INDEX  OF  AUTHORS 

PAGE 

ADAMS,  G.  P. 

Idealism  and  the  Modern  Age 6 

AITKEN,  E.  G. 

The  Binary  Stars 42 

ALLEN,  J.  T. 

The  Greek  Theatre  of  the  Fifth  Century 25 

BACON,  LEONARD. 

See  KOSE  AND  BACON. 

BIOLETTI,  F.  T.,  CRUESS,  W.  V.,  DAVI,  H.  D. 

Changes  in  the  Chemical  Composition  of  Grapes  During 
Eipening  44 

BOLTON,  H.  E. 

Father  Kino's  Historical  Memoir  of  the  Southwest 14 

Favores  Celestiales  Experimentados  en  las  Nuevas  Con- 

quistas  y  Nuevas  Comversiones  de  la  Nueva  Navarra. 

By  Eusebio  Francisco  Kino,  S.J 15 

BONILLA,  ADOLFO. 
•  See  SCHEVILL  Y  BONILLA. 

BRYANT,  H.  C. 

See  GRINNELL,  BRYANT,  AND  SWARTH. 

CAMPBELL,  W.  W. 

The  Spectrographie  Velocities  of  the  Brighter  Stars, 
observed  at  the  Lick  Observatory  and  the  D.  O. 
Mills  Observatory 61 

CAMPBELL,  W.  W.,  AND  MOORE,  J.  H. 

The  Spectrographie  Velocities  of  the  Bright-Line 
Nebulae  62 

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PAGE 

CHAPMAN,  C.  E. 

Catalogue  of  Materials  in  the  Archive  General  de  las 
Indias  for  the  History  of  the  Pacific  Coast  and  the 
American  Southwest 11 

CHINARD,  C.  G. 

L'exostime  ame"ricain  dans  1'oeuvre  de  Chateaubriand  23 
Les  Natchez  de  Chateaubriand,  livres  I  et  II,  edites  avec 
des  notes   critiques 30 

CLARK,  J.  T. 

Lexicological  Evolution  and  Conceptual  Progress 26 

CORNISH,  B.  Q. 

Francisco  Navarro  Villoslada 24 

CORY,  H.  E. 

Edmund  Spenser:  a  Critical  Study 21 

CRUESS,  W.  V. 

The  Fermentation  Organisms  of  Californian  Grapes 50 

See  BIOLETTI,  CRUESS,  AND  DAVI. 

CURTIS,  H.  D. 

Descriptions  of  762  Nebulae  and  Clusters  Photographed 

with  the  Crossley  Eeflector 46 

The  Planetary  Nebulae 59 

A  Study  of  Absorption  Effects  in  the  Spiral  Nebulae....  63 

DAVI,  H.  D. 

See  BIOLETTI,  CRUESS,  AND  DAVI. 

FORKE,  ALFRED. 

The  World  Conception  of  the  Chinese:  their  Cosmo- 
logical,  Astronomical,  and  Physico-philosophical 
Speculations  _ 40 

FROST,  H.  B. 

Mutation   in   Matthiola 55 

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PAGE 

GARDNER,  N.  L. 

See  SETCHELL  AND  GARDNER. 

GAY,  F.  P. 

Typhoid  Fever,  Considered  as  a  Problem  of  Scientific 
Medicine    66 

GAYLEY,  C.  M. 

Shakespeare  and  the  Founders  of  Liberty  in  America....  34 
GAYLEY,  C.  M.,  AND  KURTZ,  B.  P. 

Methods  and  Materials  of  Literary  Criticism:   Lyric, 
Epic,  and  Allied  Forms  of  Poetry 29 

GITTINGER,  BOY. 

The  Formation  of  the  State  of  Oklahoma  (1803-1906)....  16 
GRINNELL,  J.,  BRYANT,  H.  C.,  SWARTH,  H.  S. 

The  Game  Birds  of  California 52 

HART,  W.  M. 

Kipling   the   Story   Writer 26 

KOFOID,   C.   A.,   AND  SWEZY,   OLIVE. 

The    Dinoflagellata    of    the    San    Diego    Region — The 
Gymnodinioidae    47 

KRUNICH,  MILUTIN. 

Serbia  Crucified 33 

KURTZ,  B.  P. 

See  GAYLEY  AND  KURTZ. 
LEUSCHNER,  A.  O. 

Perturbations  and  Tables  of  the  Minor  Planets  Dis- 
covered by  James  C.  Watson,  Part  II 57 

LEWIS,  C.  I. 

A  Survey  of  Symbolic  Logic 7 

LlNFORTH,    I.   M. 

Solon   the   Athenian 35 

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PAGE 

McEwEN,  G.  F. 

Ocean  Temperatures.  Their  Kelation  to  Solar  Eadia- 
tion  and  Oceanic  Circulation 56 

McGuiRE,  ELIZABETH. 

A  Study  in  the  Writings  of  Don  Mariano  Jose  de 
Larra 37 

MERRIAM,  J.  C. 

Correlation  of  the  Tertiary  Formation  and  Faunas  of 

the    Great   Basin 45 

The  Felidae  of  Eancho  La  Brea 49 

MERRILL,  W.  A. 

Lucreti  De  Eerum  Natura  Libri  Sex 28 

MOORE,  J.  H. 

See  CAMPBELL  AND  MOORE. 

MORLEY,  S.  G. 

Studies  in  Spanish  Dramatic  Versification:  Alarcon 
and  Moreto  37 

MOSES,  BERNARD. 

The  Breakdown  of  Spanish  Eule  in  South  America 10 

NEWMAN,  L.  I.,  AND  POPPER,  WILLIAM. 

Studies  in  Biblical  Parallelism 36 

NOTES,  G.  E. 

Pan  Tadeusz;  or,  The  Last  Foray  in  Lithuania:  a  story 
of  life  among  Polish  gentlefolk  in  the  years  1811 
and  1812,  by  Adam  Mickiewicz 31 

Plays  by  Alexander  Ostrovsky:  A  Protegee  of  the  Mis- 
tress, Poverty  is  No  Crime,  Sin  and  Sorrow  are 
Common  to  All,  It's  a  Family  Affair— We'll  Settle 
it  Ourselves  32 

Tolstoy   38 

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PAGE 

PAETOW,  L.  J. 

The  Morale  Scolarium  of  John  Garland,  Professor  in 
the  University  of  Paris  in  the  First  Half  of  the 
Thirteenth  Century  17 

PERNOT,  F.  E. 

Electrical  Phenomena  in  Parallel  Conductors 48 

PERNOT,  F.  E.,  AND  WOODS,  B.  M. 

Logarithms  of  Hyperbolic  Functions  to  Twelve  Signifi- 
cant Figures  53 

PETERSSON,  TORSTEN. 

Cicero:    A  Biography 19 

POPPER,  WILLIAM. 

See  NEWMAN  AND  POPPER. 

PINGER,  W.  E.  E. 

Goethe  and  Sterne 25 

PRICE,  L.  M. 

English-German  Literary  Influences:  Survey  and  Bibli- 
osrraphv  22 

to    *^jf    j 
ElEBER,  C.   H. 

Footnotes  to  Formal  Logic 5 

EOBERTSON,  T.  B. 

The  Physical  Chemistry  of  the  Proteins 58 

EOSE,  E.  S.  AND  BACON,  LEONARD. 

The  Lay  of  the  Cid 27 

EOYCE,   JOSIAH. 

Fugitive  Essays  5 

The  Idealism  of  Kant's  Successors 7 

EYDER,  A.  W. 

Twenty-two  Goblins  39 

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PAGE 
SCHEVILL,  EUDOLPH. 

Cervantes  19 

The  Dramatic  Art  of  Lope  de  Vega 20 

SCHEVILL,  BODOLFO,  Y  BONILLA,  ADOLPO. 

Obras  Completas  de  Miguel  de  Cervantes  Saavedra 30 

SETCHELL,  W.  A.,  AND  GARDNER,  N.  L. 

The  Marine  Algae  of  the  Pacific  Coast  of  North 
America  ~ 54 

SLATE,  FREDERICK. 

Fundamental  Equations  of  Dynamics 51 

STRATTON,  G.  M. 

Theophrastus  and  the  Greek  Physiological  Psychology 
before  Aristotle  ~      8 

SWAIN,  A.  F. 

Synopsis  of  the  Aphididae  of  California 64 

SWARTH,  H.  8. 

See  GRINNELL,  BRYANT  AND  SWARTH. 

SWEZY,  OLIVE. 

See  KOPOID  AND  SWEZY. 

TEGGART,  F.  J. 

The  Processes  of  History 17 

TOLMAN,  E.  C. 

The  Theory  of  the  Eelativity  of  Motion 64 

VAN  DUZEE,  E.  P. 

Catalogue  of  the  Hemiptera  of  America  North  of  Mex- 
ico, excepting  the  Aphididae,  Coccidae  and  Aleuro- 
didae  _ ^ 43 

WEBER,  H.  J. 

What  ig  an  Indicative  f  Prolegomena  to  a  Study  of 
Moods  40 

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PAGE 

WESTERGAABD,  WALDEMAE. 

The  Danish  West  Indies  under  Company  Eule  (1671- 
1754),  with  a  Supplementary  Chapter  (1755-1917)....  13 

WILSON,  E.  E. 

The  Radial  Velocity  of  the  Greater  Magellanic  Cloud....  60 

WOODS,  B.  M. 

See  PEENOT  AND  WOODS. 

WEIGHT,  W.  H. 

The  Wave-Lengths  of  the  Nebular  Lines  and  General 
Observations  of  the  Nebular  Spectra 67 


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